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39 Year Old Public SaaS CEO Doubles Revenue to $400m Over the Last 24 Months - His Genius M&A Playbook
- ▶ 13:30 Nathan Latka Is there a fintech product coming from, from, uh, you have a lot of data, Square's got a massive
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?
- ▶ 26:52 Alex Schwartz The biggest one in the space, as you, as you know, is Square and Shopify, right?
$100m in revenue selling software to 27,000 AirBNB hosts?
- ▶ 13:57 Nathan Latka I mean, but I think, I think to something that, I mean, you read squares, right?
ECommerce SaaS Hits $1.5m after Co-Founder Replaced Herself
- ▶ 11:15 Elliot DGML Um, a lot of times, also, if the boutique is coming off of another POS at Shopify or Square, they'll have some of the hardware already, because it's iPad-based. 2 times in the scene
Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?
- ▶ 15:19 Hooman Radfar We want to build, you know, a brand that's enduring and iconic, like a square.
How Flatfile Built $100m+ WarChest to Create Data Onboarding Category, Hit $6m ARR
- ▶ 1:15 Nathan Latka So since then, Flatfile has completed over twenty six billion data mapping decisions for companies like Sage, CBRE, Square HubSpot, and ClickUp.
Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
- ▶ 3:55 Derek Osgood So we have, you know, big companies right now, like square and smart rent using us.
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
- ▶ 1:10:35 Patrick Campbell The obvious ones were like Stripe, Chargebee, Zora, um, Shopify was one of them, Adobe, HubSpot, Salesforce, uh, Square, Adyen.
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
- ▶ 16:18 Nicolas Vandenberghe So we got 20 K, another 20 K, and then we had dry summer, uh, and then we're in business with a whole bunch of big companies, like Square wants to buy, uh, but it took us a while, so in September we're out of money, and I should mention…
New Event Tool Worth $40m with $2.5m in ARR, Raising More Now
- ▶ 8:55 Nathan Latka They integrate with the best financial tools in the business, like Stripe, Square, Brex, Gusto, bill.com, Shopify, you name it.
Myr POS SaaS For SMB's hits $1.2m ARR, Raised at $7.5m Valuation with 400 Customers
- ▶ 3:08 Nathan Latka Like, well, I mean, why doesn't Toast, why isn't Square, why isn't Par, you know, why doesn't OrderMark, why don't they handle this kind of stuff? 3 times in the scene
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation
- ▶ 15:31 Nick Gerard Uh, Square. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Nick Gerard I mentioned square before. 2 times in the scene
Will Veem's 300,000 SMB Customers Process Over $5b in 2021? 3 Products Driving Growth.
- ▶ 14:03 Nathan Latka I mean, we had Jim on the co-founder of Square on the show and, and we got going into his POS business and his credit business and how the POS system allows their like buy now, pay later stuff. 3 times in the scene
Estated Grows 100%, Breaks $1.7m ARR for Property Data Platform
- ▶ 12:16 Nathan Latka They integrate with the best financial tools in the business, like Stripe, Square, Brex, Gusto, bill.com, Shopify, you name it.
Former Top Sales Rep Will Help You Hire First SDR at Your SaaS Company for $2,500/mo
- ▶ 11:47 Nathan Latka They integrate with the best financial tools in the business, like Stripe, Square, Brex, Gusto, bill.com, Shopify, you name it.
Gusto Killed Their $3m Business, Pivoted to $7.8m ATS Business in HR Tech Space
- ▶ 10:24 Nathan Latka They integrate with the best financial tools in the business, like Stripe, Square, Brex, Gusto, bill.com, Shopify, you name it.
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.
- ▶ 9:01 Nathan Latka They integrate with the best financial tools in the business, like Stripe, Square, Brex, Gusto, bill.com, Shopify, you name it.
Course Creation Tool Doubles in 6 months to $7m ARR
- ▶ 9:10 Nathan Latka They integrate with the best financial tools in the business, like Stripe, Square, Brex, Gusto, bill.com, Shopify, you name it.
QuickOrder Hits $6m Helping Restaurants Drive Loyalty. Next? Raising $20m on $100m Valuation.
- ▶ 12:00 Mads Vejderkop You've already seen in the, in the US with both Square and Toast, um, kind of consolidating the markets.
Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka
- ▶ 1:41 Nathan Latka Found Third Degree Glass Factory in 2002, ultimately probably best known for co-founding Square in 2008, before now jumping into new endeavors to do good like launch code and ideally save journalism via invisibly.
- ▶ 2:10 Nathan Latka I just checked Square. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 Nathan Latka And we're going to get to this, but ultimately when the big guy came after Square, which was Amazon, you credit a lot of the success of you fighting off Square to doing nothing because you guys had so much of your innovation stack built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:34 Nathan Latka Let's, let's close the Mira story for a second and then branch off to Twitter, Square, and everything else.
- ▶ 16:32 Jim McKelvey Um, one of which, uh, we were about to start working on when I went back to the studio, lost the sale, and that was what became Square. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:39 Nathan Latka It created a warrior spirit and warrior spirit as square starts to take off. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Nathan Latka So fast forwarding, talking about traction by 20 12, correct me if this is wrong, Square is passing out two hundred-ish million dollars in annual revenue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:00 Jim McKelvey Was looking like they were going to kill Square, and the reason they look that way is because whenever Amazon had previously done that to a startup, ie, copy their product, undercut their price, Amazon always won, and so we couldn't find… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:57 Nathan Latka Let's use some real examples from Square, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:18 Jim McKelvey The only difference now is that I can get meetings a little bit easier, but that's only, you know, with my Square founder hat on, like this, you know, people will meet the founder of Square, um, and, and, and then I get to pitch them the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:25 Nathan Latka Fought off betrayal, launching Square in 2008 after failing to sell one of his pieces of glassblowing work because the lady only had American Express card. 2 times in the scene
1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
- ▶ 9:17 Enrique Dubugras So, you know, like, uh, Square, for example, they charge 2.9% out of the merchant, right?
1362 How Troops AI Became #1 Slack Integration, $1m+ in ARR, $17m Raised
- ▶ 10:22 Dan Reich So for example, some of our customers include guys like WeWork, Looker, Slack, Envision, Flexport, Square.
- ▶ 16:24 Dan Reich We think we can play that game all day long, but let's first and foremost, see if we can be a product led company, much in the same way that Slack is a product led company, or Envision is a product led company, or Square is a product led…
Capitalistbook.com: My SaaS book LIVE today ($6.5m Error)
- ▶ 16:32 Nathan Latka Square and Weebly followed a similar track. 3 times in the scene
671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
- ▶ 18:49 Steve McLaughlin I mean, I, I like, uh, Jack Dorsey because I'm a huge fan of Square, and I'm a huge fan of Twitter, and I think despite, uh, the fact that both companies have been thrown under the bus over the course of time, I've been a huge fan of both,… 2 times in the scene
EP 452: 70k MRR, CSTOREPRO, Data play, <1m Raised, <5% monthly churn
- ▶ 3:10 Arif Mamun Saw a huge opportunity here with modern point of sale systems, you know, the, the squares of the world, the Vend HQs, the shop keeps of the world, really revolutionizing retail.
No Way This Fitness App Worth $8m With No Revenue with Ashu Dubey of GetApplause EP 212
- ▶ 16:12 Ashu Dubey Second, he's trying to manage two companies at once, being the CEO of both Twitter and Square.
Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
- ▶ 15:00 Nathan Latka So Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, focus on square Tuesday, Thursday, or the other days of the week, focus on, you know, obviously the other business
How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
- ▶ 1:00 Nathan Latka Yes, the founder of Twitter and Square.