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The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders

Omer Khan
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Every week, SaaS founders share how they found product-market fit, got their first customers, scaled to $1M+ ARR, and navigated pricing, sales, churn, and AI. Host Omer Khan has interviewed 500+ founders and coached 150+ through revenue milestones. Whether you're bootstrapping to $10K MRR or scaling past $1M+ ARR, The SaaS Podcast delivers proven growth strategies - not theory. Join 5,000+ founder... more

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Most SaaS onboarding is terrible - rigid, pushy, and forgettable. Karel Papik spent 15 years designing video games before he looked at B2B software and thought: this is hopeless. He co-founded Product Fruits, a digital adoption platform that now serv... more

Three years. Zero traction. Then product-market fit hit - twice. Girish Redekar taught himself to code at 28 and spent years on failed ideas before B2B product-market fit clicked with RecruiterBox. Customers endured a broken PayPal payment hack just ... more

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His competitors have raised hundreds of millions. ChatGPT can do the basics of what his product does. Sylvestre Dupont's entire company is six people. His competitive differentiation strategy - that most businesses want something simple that works in... more

Five years to the first million. Zero dollars raised. NFL teams pay the same price as high school teams. Hewitt Tomlin built TeamBuildr into a $10M ARR vertical SaaS company by focusing on one job function and refusing to charge enterprise customers ... more

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Recent Guests

Girish Redekar
Founder/CEO of Sprinto, previously co-founder of RecruiterBox
Sprinto
Episode: Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Sylvester Dupont
Co-founder of Passer / Parser (B2B SaaS for document data extraction)
Passer (Parser)
Episode: Bootstrapped SaaS Growth When AI Took Over the Market
Hewitt Tomlin
Co-founder of TeamBuildr, builder of software for strength and conditioning coaches
TeamBuildr
Episode: Vertical SaaS: $0 to $10M ARR With Flat Pricing for Everyone
Sarah Ahmad
Co-founder of Stable, AI-powered virtual mailbox for businesses
Stable
Episode: SaaS Product-Market Fit: Zero Code to 8-Figure ARR
Zong Xu
Co-founder of Deliverect
Deliverect
Episode: SaaS Distribution Channel: Partner Deals to $100M ARR
Joel Griffith
Founder of Browserless
Browserless
Episode: Bootstrapped SaaS: $200 Customer to $4M ARR Solo
Vineet Jain
Co-founder and CEO of Egnyte, a content collaboration and security platform.
Egnyte
Episode: Enterprise Sales: $6K in SEM to a $300M Revenue Machine
Adam Markowitz
Co-founder and CEO of Drata, a trust management platform
Drata
Episode: Product-Market Fit: From Vitamin to $100M Painkiller
Gilles Berto
Co-founder and CEO of Lifestorm, a webinar platform for enterprise marketers
Lifestorm
Episode: SaaS Product-Market Fit Lost at $9M ARR Then Rebuilt

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Omer Khan
Host of The SaaS Podcast (The SaaS Podcast)

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 544 ratings
  • Omer, this episode is pure gold! Thank you!

    Podcast Addict
    5
    sandpoint.jack
    5 months ago
  • Delightful

    Huge fan of the podcast. Thank you Omar.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sqweeeeze
    Finland6 months ago
  • Best SaaS podcast for startups

    100% best one in the podcast available

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    JDR106600
    United Kingdoma year 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
    a year 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 format is noted for being concise, no-nonsense, and packed with value for SaaS builders and growth teams.
Guests are described as high-caliber founders and operators, delivering real-world insights rather than generic theory.
Listeners consistently praise the host for asking tactical, actionable questions and extracting practical takeaways from guests.
The production quality and interviewer preparation are frequently highlighted as distinguishing strengths.

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Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Q: How did AI shape Sprinto's strategy and product development?
AI is used to make software autonomous, help customers manage AI-driven environments, and improve audit-related workflows; the company emphasizes deterministic components for audits while using AI to automate the rest of the workflow.
Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Q: What changed to help Sprinto gain traction quickly after RecruiterBox?
They reframed the problem around security certifications and audits, engineered a productized process around audits, and focused GTM on channels where customers were actively seeking compliance solutions, including VC perk programs, SEO, and founder networks.
Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Q: What were some of the ideas Girish tried before RecruiterBox took off, and why did they fail?
They attempted a job search engine in indie.com, which failed because not all jobs had a public digital footprint; later, basic resumes matching worked technically but failed as a business until RecruiterBox formed as a CRM for hiring.
Bootstrapped SaaS Growth When AI Took Over the Market
Q: What was the biggest mistake in the first year?
The biggest mistake was not talking to potential customers early enough and failing to build marketing and a real customer discovery process into the product from day one.
Vertical SaaS: $0 to $10M ARR With Flat Pricing for Everyone
Q: What type of product, what was that first version of the product that you guys built and how long did it take for you to have something that you could sell?
They began with an MVP around the summer of 2011 and made their first dollar in the summer of 2012, recognizing that the initial product needed validation through actual paying customers, even as early users provided critical feedback that guided the direction toward a coach-focused, B2B SaaS model.

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The show features in-depth conversations with SaaS founders and growth leaders centered on product-market fit, sales, pricing, and scaling to multi-million ARR. Episodes spotlight practical, battle-tested tactics—ranging from early customer acquisition and pricing experiments to enterprise sales, partnerships, and AI-driven product ideas. A standout theme is the focus on actionable takeaways and real-world stories from founders who navigated thorny growth challenges, pivots, and customer-centric strategies. The format tends to be concise, tactical, and value-forward, making it useful for entrepreneurs, operators, and marketers seeking concrete playbooks and sanity checks as they build or scale a SaaS business.

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1. Girish Redekar
2. Sylvester Dupont
3. Hewitt Tomlin
4. Sarah Ahmad
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7. Vineet Jain
8. Adam Markowitz

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