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The SaaS Podcast - Real Lessons on Growing Profitable SaaS

Omer Khan
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Building software is easier than ever. Growing it into a profitable business is the hard part. Every week, a founder gets specific about what actually moved the needle: finding product-market fit, landing customers, pricing, defensibility, and durable growth. Host Omer Khan has interviewed nearly 500 software founders, from their first customers to real scale. You get what actually worked, not the... more

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Five years at $50K ARR. Ten failed projects. Lending the business money out of his own bank account. George Georgiadis came close to shutting Happier Leads down. Instead he broke through the revenue plateau and reached $1.5M ARR with zero employees. more

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Ron Hash bootstrapped Skimmer, software for pool service companies, to over $1 million in ARR and 1,500 customers with zero paid marketing, then sold it. His SaaS pricing was the engine: 50 cents per serviced pool with a $29 minimum, when every compe... more

Six years of grinding, and SaaS churn kept capping his growth: win a customer, lose a customer, repeat. Then one pricing call flipped everything. Farzad Rashidi pivoted Respona to a done-for-you service-as-software model and 4x'd in twelve months the... more

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Danny Jenkins was $150,000 in credit card debt with zero paying customers 18 months into building his bootstrapped startup. An accelerator told him to quit. He ignored the advice and built ThreatLocker into a cybersecurity company approaching $200M i... more

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George Georgiadis
Founder of Happier Leads, bootstrapped SaaS entrepreneur
Happier Leads
Episode: Stuck at $50K ARR for 5 Years. Now $1.5M With AI Agents.
Farzad Rashidi
Co-founder of Respona
Respona
Episode: He demoted his SaaS to sell a service and 4x'd revenue in 12 months
Danny Jenkins
Founder and CEO of ThreatLocker
ThreatLocker
Episode: How Danny Jenkins Bootstrapped ThreatLocker From $150K Debt to $200M
Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup, author of Incorruptible
Author, Incorruptible / Lean Startup
Episode: Eric Ries on How Founders Quietly Lose Their Company
Mark Abbott
Founder of Ninety (90.io)
Ninety
Episode: Community-Led SaaS Growth: How Ninety Hit $44M ARR
Yega Kumarappan
Co-founder of PaperFlight (PaperFlight)
PaperFlight
Episode: Founder-Led Sales: From 2% to 20% with 10-Hour Custom Demos
Tibo Louis-Lucas
Founder/CEO of T Maker and former creator of Tweet Hunter and Taplio
T Maker
Episode: Bootstrapped SaaS: $12M ARR Across 5 Products With a Team of 10
Marius Meiners
Founder of Peak AI
Peak AI
Episode: AI Startup Hits $8.6M ARR With V0 MVP and €85 Pricing
Ev Kontsevoy
Founder/CEO of Teleport (and former Mailgun founder)
Teleport
Episode: The 8-Figure Open Source SaaS Playbook

Host

Omer Khan
Host of The SaaS Podcast - Growing Profitable AI SaaS & AI Agents; leads discussions on practical growth, GTM, and governance in AI-enabled SaaS.

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 546 ratings
  • Omer, this episode is pure gold! Thank you!

    Podcast Addict
    5
    sandpoint.jack
    9 months ago
  • Delightful

    Huge fan of the podcast. Thank you Omar.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sqweeeeze
    Finland9 months ago
  • Best SaaS podcast for startups

    100% best one in the podcast available

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    JDR106600
    United Kingdom2 years ago
  • The discussion from episode 279 about crafting a compelling sales narrative and focusing on a customer’s problems rather than the product itself was incredibly insightful. Your emphasis on identifying and addressing a company’s pain points really stood out as a fundamental yet often underutilized approach to sales and marketing.

    Podchaser
    5
    lyndon19126
    2 years ago
  • The beat SaaS podcast

    I love the format. It's not too long, and Omar asks guests what many founders is looking for.

    I got hundreads of notes.

    Thank you.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Damian Naprawa
    Poland2 years ago

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The interviews are consistently structured and focused on business growth rather than chit-chat.
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Stuck at $50K ARR for 5 Years. Now $1.5M With AI Agents.
Q: Why are you shifting from a solo operation to hiring again, and what will you look for in new team members?
Despite achieving seven-figure ARR with AI-driven autos, the business needs human capability to scale further. Hiring will focus on smart, AI-savvy people who can operate with prompt engineering and AI tooling to move the business to the next level.
Stuck at $50K ARR for 5 Years. Now $1.5M With AI Agents.
Q: What happened during the five-year stretch at 50K ARR, and what finally changed?
The founder wore many hats and lacked a focused, scalable approach; only by focusing on sales/marketing, reducing feature bloat, and building a lightweight, end-to-end solution did the business unlock growth, supplemented by disciplined email marketing and better unit economics.
Stuck at $50K ARR for 5 Years. Now $1.5M With AI Agents.
Q: Tell us about Happier Leads. What does the product do and who is it for?
Happier Leads identifies anonymous website visitors, qualifies them with AI, and engages them. It can recognize individuals (e.g., John from IBM) and route qualified leads into email campaigns to bring them into the sales funnel.
How Danny Jenkins Bootstrapped ThreatLocker From $150K Debt to $200M
Q: What was the most common piece of business advice you disagreed with, and why?
He argues that market research is overrated and that waiting for data from many interviews delays real progress; instead, he emphasizes getting a paying customer quickly to validate viability.
Founder-Led Sales: From 2% to 20% with 10-Hour Custom Demos
Q: How did you find your first paying customer and how long did it take?
The first customer came in via Intercom as an inbound inquiry. They were aware of the problem and willing to work with PaperFlight to evolve the product, which helped validate the approach despite the product being in early stages.

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What is The SaaS Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Across episodes, the show centers on practical, battle-tested strategies for growing a SaaS business, often with AI-infused products or agents. Guests range from bootstrapped founders to founders backed by capital, who share go-to-market tactics, pricing models, product-market fit processes, and governance lessons relevant to scale. A recurring thread is moving from early traction to sustainable revenue, with emphasis on real-world experiments, distribution-led growth, and enterprise-facing GTM. A notable strength is the breadth of founder experiences—from open-source and AI-first pivots to open governance and compliance—paired with concise, actionable takeaways. Listeners can expect tactical playbooks, candid lessons learned, and fresh per... more

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