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15 statements across 15 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Aug 26, 2016 by Michael Hollauf · said 1,171 times in 705 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (878), Michael Cooney (10), Roland Polzin (8), Peter Coppinger (7), Nitesh Nandi (7), Todd Fisher (6), Ricardo Lassa (6), Nick Hollinger (6)
2026 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2025 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table
- How I Built my AI Tool SubMagic to $667k/Month With a Tiny Team and No Funding
- From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook
- AI Tool Hits $3.2m Revenue in 18 Months Using 7 Growth Tactics (Copy!)
- How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)
- I spent $1m on Linkedin Ads and Added $3m of new Revenue, Paragon CMO
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The Secret Virtual Assistant Marketplace SaaS CEO's Spent $25m on in 2023
- Sell SMB SaaS? He Generates $20m/yr using "Impossible" Outbound, Craver CEO
- Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch
- This $100m ARR Company Is Making a Major Change to their Q3 2024 Marketing Strategy
- How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- How I leveraged marketing analytics to scale from $1M to $11M
- This SaaS For Fund Manager's Just Hit $40k of MRR charing a % of AUM Managed
- This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees
- His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model
- The Sales & Marketing Tech Stack to Scale Successfully from $1 - $100M+ ARR
- Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
- SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!
- How I Built a Media Company (within Gainsight) that Created a $1B Brand
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 49 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- Bootstrapper killing his VC backed rivals who raised $500m+
- $10m revenue founder uses debt to get leverage in $22m Series B for help desk software
- He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team
- How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year
- Bootstrapped To $1m With Cookie Monitoring and Security SaaS
- How Flatfile Built $100m+ WarChest to Create Data Onboarding Category, Hit $6m ARR
- 15 year old launches unique app, breaks $1m revenue, raises $10m
- Workplace Management SaaS Hits $4.7m in ARR, up 70% YoY, Price Increase Added $55k/mo last 20 days
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 23 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy
- Estated Grows 100%, Breaks $1.7m ARR for Property Data Platform
- HRForecast Bootstrapped to $3m, Signed $300k Deal, How They Handle Profits
- Egypt Based Seafood Marketplace Launches, Does 70 Orders, Makes 15% Commission
- Bug reporting tool Breaks $4800/mo, 600 Customers After Raising $1.5m at $6m Valuation
- Resurface Is On Prem API Management for HealthCare, $5k/year per Managed Node, $2m Raised
- FreightWaves Hits $30m Revenue, Spends No Money on CAC, Media Business Winning
- Reviews.io Breaks $10m ARR Bootstrapped, Growing 150% YoY
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 71 mentions in 56 episodes 1 per episode
- VisitorQueue Hits $270k Revenue, Powers Your Sales Team ABM
- WIldJar Call Tracking, a 5 person $2m Revenue Business, wow!
- Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?
- Unstack CMS All In One Hits $10k MRR, Adding $2500/mo, 16k Uniques from ProductHunt Launch
- UBIweb Makes $1.7m/year Helping Plumbers Launch Websites
- Rosterfy Hits $1.2m Revenues Helping Superbowl Staff Volunteers
- ClearView Is HootSuite for Lawyers, Hits $2.3m Revenue, Would Look at Exiting for $6m
- Richter Hits $4.5m Fine Tuning Sales Process For F500 Brands
- 48 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 54 mentions in 37 episodes 1 per episode
- 1376 SMB Marketing space CEO: We're about to close $5m on a $36m valuation
- 1392 $104m in ARR and Bootstrapped?!?! How?!
- 1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!
- 1533 How Greenrope CRM Bootstrapped to $2.7M in ARR
- 1444 Retarget Based Off Who Called Your Company, $1.5m in ARR, 45 Customers
- 1431 CRM for Speakers Passes $30k in MRR
- 1302 Property Data API Using Cash Cow to Fuel SaaS Growth
- 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 107 mentions in 80 episodes 1 per episode
- 952 How Teamwork.com Got 20,000 Customers and $18m in ARR With No Funding
- 1191 How Bootstrapped Time Tracking CEO Drives 100% yoy Growth, $3.8m in ARR
- 1059 $100m In Audio Ad Spend Goes Through Our Platform
- 1047 Rokt CEO: Why We Acquired CalReply for $15m on $1-2m in ARR
- 1036 How He Took SMB Churn From 12% Monthly to 4% In Social Media Marketing Space
- 957 Why He's Moving from Self Serve to $3k/yr Plans in Recruiting Space
- 892 SaaS: How he Sold 80,000 Seats at $10 a pop
- 1203 SEMRush to hit $80m ARR This Year, Here's How
- 72 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 341 mentions in 194 episodes 2 per episode
- 805: SaaS: 30,000 Customers Make Him King of Call Tracking and Attribution
- 693: How to 3x SaaS Revenue in 8 Months from $25k to $85k
- 842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017
- 879 SaaS: From $360k Agency to 2 month old, $30k ARR SaaS
- 754: They've Passed $15M in Revenue Using Breakfast Meetups for Growth
- 680: How to Start SaaS Company with Very little Savings, with Reply.io CEO Oleg Campbell
- 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
- 745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?
- 186 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 487 mentions in 280 episodes 2 per episode
- EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com
- How Students Can Sell First $6k with Elijah Montecelli of Montecelli Band & Satchel
- EP 494: PDFFiller $10M+ Revenue, 200k Customers To make Document Signing/Management Easier with CEO Borya Shakhnovich
- EP 453: $2M Agency Helps Brands Raise Capital, IPO, Sell, with ROIworks CEO George Revutsky
- EP 424: SaaS Teckst Passes 65 Enterprise Customers, $2.5M Raised with CEO Matt Tumbleson
- EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor
- From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
- EP 519: GetAccept Hits $44k MRR, Helping 1100 Companies Get Deals Signed with CEO Samir Samjic
- 272 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →