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60 statements across 50 episodes · 26 bullish · 8 bearish · 50 people on the record · first statement Aug 15, 2016 by Regina Pradham · said 2,024 times in 1143 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2026 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Why Does Google Pay Him $2M A Year?
- He Lost $50/User to Build a $30M ARR AI Empire (Fathom)
- He Sells AI Door-to-Door. $3.5M ARR, 400% Growth, $0 Ads
- Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M
- Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC — Mike Zisman
- Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing
- How to Scale to $12M ARR: The Serial Founder Playbook for Vertical SaaS and Agentic AI
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO
- Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
- These are the AI SEO Secrets that Clickup, Airbase, and Freshworks are using to win
- 3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash
- Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story
- I spent $1m on Linkedin Ads and Added $3m of new Revenue, Paragon CMO
- 3 Product-Led Strategies I Used to Generate $1B In Self-Serve Revenue For My Clients, Wes Bush
- Frame.io COO Shares How they Built Product to Hit 1m Users and Exited to Adobe for $1.25b
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 136 mentions in 71 episodes 2 per episode
- How Stack Overflow Secretly Made $65,000,000 on its SaaS Last Year
- This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
- How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team
- 27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
- Coro Announces $100m Live on the Show, Their Partnership Playbook
- She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah
- 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
- 42 year old lawyer convinces 200+ Construction Companies to Pay $4k+ Per Year for his Legal Software
- 63 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 228 mentions in 176 episodes 1 per episode
- $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
- Bootstrapped doing $2.4m Revenue, $600k Cash in bank, helps retailers manage inventory
- 12 Founders disciplines that helped to bootstrap to $10m+ ARR
- From $350k to $1.4m last 12 months, this forecasting tool hit 550 paying customers, $10m valuation
- Trucker Sells his Company for $300k cash, Launches $1m ARR SaaS
- How They Used #1 Product Hunt Launch to Hit $20k+ MRR for Expense Management Tool inside Slack
- How he spun his software out of a corporation and hit first 5 paying customers
- How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
- 168 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 389 mentions in 289 episodes 1 per episode
- 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS
- Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team
- Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation
- Fund management tool breaks $500,000 revenue on way to $1m+ this year
- Genius Way to Pre-Sell $5k of Your Product
- The Math Behind the $360m Sage Paid to Acquire BrightPearl
- How we bootstrapped to $2m ARR, $800k in Profits, and what we plan to do with extra cash
- Side project accidentally hits $7k, when does he go full time?
- 281 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 255 mentions in 162 episodes 2 per episode
- Slack Tool KarmaBot Doubles to $400k ARR, Turns Down $1m Offer
- DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
- Original On-Prem CRM GoldMine Still Does $3.6m in Maintenance Revenue, SaaS Play?
- Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
- MedStack Grows 300% TTM, Raises $3.2m Seed at $15m Valuation
- SecurityScorecard Breaks $71m ARR, 1700 Customers, $200m in Bank to Fuel Product Expansion
- $1.4m ARR Furniture Delivery Chatbot Company Growing 200% YoY, Raising $5m Now
- Jiva burning $50k/mo after raising $1.3m Seed, Plan to Turn POC's into Paid Accounts
- 154 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 139 mentions in 51 episodes 3 per episode
- Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool
- Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- 1725 SEMRush Broke $100m in Revenues in 2019
- BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token
- Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
- FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space
- Supermetrics $40m Raise Included Secondary at $200m+ Valuation
- Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products
- 43 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 119 mentions in 54 episodes 2 per episode
- 1405 How ClickDimensions is using Microsoft Ecosytem To Drive to $40m in ARR
- 1444 Retarget Based Off Who Called Your Company, $1.5m in ARR, 45 Customers
- 1588 Why 450 Enterprises Pay Him $45M+ in ARR To Help With Employee Volunteering and Donation Programs
- 1318 He's flat, cash flow positive, moving freemium, will his tests turn the ship?
- 1517 How $165M ARR DiscoverOrg Sales Operation Works
- 1339 $3m ARR Org Chart Company CEO Uses "Touch Zero" Operating Model to Manage Cash
- 1561 How To Get 5 Team Members Paying Personally Onto One Team Account with $5m ARR MixMax
- 1436 How He Used Partnerships To Grow 10x YoY to $6m in ARR
- 46 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 156 mentions in 81 episodes 2 per episode
- 1015 How He's Using $10m In AdSpend to Power New SaaS Offering
- 1136 Outreach.io CEO: "We'll hit $10m/quarter in 2018" with focus on ARPU expansion
- 1106 Fotoware CEO: We've moved 20% of our revenue from on prem to cloud
- 1085 We're #1 In Salesforce for Call Routing, Tech with $10m+ in ARR
- 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
- 1003 With $150m Raised, He's Sold 3m "Weird" Domain Names
- 995 Pakistan King of SaaS
- 1253 GetAccept Breaks 4000 Customers, Grew ARR 3x to $1.7m in ARR Last 12 Months
- 73 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 318 mentions in 127 episodes 3 per episode
- 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
- 746: Bill Gates Was Great to Work With, But This Founder Wanted His Own Thing
- 809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model
- 780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
- 767: With $10M Raised Will They Be Sytem of Record for Your COO?
- 706: This 31 Year Old Raised $1.3M To Help You Be More Efficient
- EP 561: He Did $1b in 2016 Transactions (Takes on avg 3%) at his M&A Firm Marlin and Associates with CEO Ken Marlin
- 794: SaaS: How He Used Pizza to Hit $7.5m in ARR and $18m Raised for his Lead Scoring Tool
- 119 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 252 mentions in 114 episodes 2 per episode
- Cirrius Insights $640K MRR 100,000 Customers
- EP 401: Quit $180k Microsoft Job to Launch Own Startup with KarmaCircles CEO Deepak Goel
- EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations
- Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226
- Moms Secret Accounting Weapon, Growing Business, and 2 Year Old Son, Ep 303: Beth Milligan
- EP 506: Klipfolio $7.9M Raised, 7000 Customers for Smarter Business Dashboards with CEO Allan Wille
- She's Built a $500k/year Company in Bali Looking for $8m Pre-Money Valuation with Andrea Loubier of MailBird EP 205
- EP 434: Top SaaS Planning Tool Hits $600k in MRR, 1800 Customers, $13M Raised, Growing Fast With CEO Liz Pearce
- 106 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Microsoft, oldest first
Aug 15, 2016
Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 negative
Sep 15, 2016 positive
Oct 13, 2016
Nov 16, 2016 bearish
Foo: Google and Microsoft Have Not Advanced Email in 10 Years
“I mean, if you sort of look at the timeline of Google's or Gmail's products in the past 10 years, it hasn't really changed very significantly, and I think that there's a huge opportunity for innovation where Google or Microsoft even hasn't really made signific…”
Nov 19, 2016 negative
Rein Spent $50k on Microsoft Dynamics in 2002 Before Founding Pipedrive
“I think it was 2002 or three. I'm not wrong. And it was one of the biggest Microsoft with the dynamics program which at that time we thought was really, really good and functional. I think it is, but it just turned out to be a big investment with not as much r…”
Dec 12, 2016 positive
Jan 9, 2017 positive
Feb 5, 2017 negative
Marlin: Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn has zero strategic fit
“I contrast that with Microsoft buying LinkedIn, and I should say that I love LinkedIn. I'm one of the first thousand users of LinkedIn. We use it extensively in my company. I think it's a great service, and yet I think it has zero strategic fit with Microsoft …”
Mar 4, 2017 positive
Mar 23, 2017
Apr 8, 2017
Jun 16, 2017 bullish
Nimble signs deal with Microsoft to resell CRM through Outlook VARs
“We just signed a deal with Microsoft where they became a reseller of Nimble. Microsoft has started to resell Nimble with Outlook through their VARs And they're going to gift their VARs Nimble, so that their VARs can be better, smarter, faster at sales and mark…”
Jun 16, 2017
Ferrara: Microsoft passes all Nimble revenue to VARs
“Microsoft currently is passing through all that revenue to the VARs. So Microsoft's not actually getting a margin on nimble. So the VARs are getting that margin, and so ultimately what's happening is that the VARs make the margin on the monthly current revenue…”
Jun 16, 2017 bullish
Jun 16, 2017 neutral
Aug 9, 2017 positive
Oct 19, 2017 positive
Oct 19, 2017 bullish
Nov 8, 2017 positive
Feb 10, 2018 positive
Smith: Major tech incumbents are currently out-executing agile startups
“What's happening in tech is you're watching for the first time ever the biggest companies execute better than the smaller companies in a lot of different ways with Amazon and everything else where we haven't seen this kind of juice since probably the Microsoft…”
May 5, 2018 neutral
Jul 14, 2018 positive
Dial Source infrastructure prevents it from seeing or extracting client data
“We purposefully built unique security controllers into our ecosystem. So we cannot log into the client's org. We cannot see any of the client's data. And unlike an integration, we do not pull any of that data out of Salesforce and Microsoft.”
Sep 3, 2018 negative
Medina: Microsoft missed the smartphone wave by treating phones as mini PCs
“Microsoft sort of tried to throw, you know, resources at this problem with a grander vision that there will be no sort of winning a foreign factor in terms of size, that the phone is just, you know, one smaller device than a tablet, which is one smaller device…”
Sep 20, 2018 bullish
Bonde: Social marketing tech will see another frothy M&A cycle
“I also am a big believer in cycles in business, so I'm hoping that there's another cycle when social marketing gets frothy again, and you're right, the companies you mentioned, most of them had exits, you know, people like Adobe and Microsoft and others, and I…”
Sep 28, 2018 positive
Nov 10, 2018 bullish
Dec 10, 2018 positive
Feb 18, 2019 neutral
Carruthers: Voxpopme's client base is 45% brands, 45% agencies, 10% partnerships
“Our clients really break down into three cohorts. The first being like major brands. So people like Microsoft, eBay, Verizon using this technology extensively. Then we power a lot of the market research agencies. So people like Kantar and Nielsen and the big r…”
Jun 28, 2019
Workboard averages $125,000 ACV across its enterprise and growth customers
“Actually, we think of, we do annual contracts. We sort of think of what their ACV per customer is, and it's about a 125 K. We've got really large enterprise, like a Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, right? Do it to telecom. And we've got a bunch of growth companies, a…”
Jun 30, 2019
Sep 19, 2019 bullish
Microsoft and LinkedIn dwarf all other sales solution providers combined
“And, like, in our space, Microsoft is the big player. And so all of us combined Have nothing on on the size and scope of LinkedIn and Microsoft as a sales solutions provider. And so I view Microsoft as the 800 pound gorilla, and then there's a whole sort of li…”
Apr 15, 2020 neutral
Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit
“Even in Q four, two, 19, Microsoft, one hundred thirty six billion Berkshire Hathaway, one hundred twenty eight billion Alphabet one twenty one billion Apple a hundred billion. Even if you took all of that money, it doesn't barely even make a dent. In the 20 t…”
Apr 30, 2020 negative
May 9, 2020
Jun 10, 2020 positive
Volset: $1M to $2M B2B SaaS businesses can achieve meaningful PE exits
“Fundamentally, what I realized pretty quickly is that things have changed very much the last 10 years, like certainly even potentially the last five years, in that, so back in, you know, nine, 2010, if you had a, say, a 1,000,002 million ARR B to B SaaS compan…”
Jun 17, 2020 positive
Cloud credits swung early startup infrastructure economics by $200,000
“Today you can get a 100,000 dollars in credits to be on the internet. Like you can get a 100,000 dollars from AWS or from Google cloud and probably also from Microsoft cloud, right? So, so we've swung from being negative a 100,000 to being positive a 100,000. …”
Aug 16, 2020 positive
Eitzen: Microsoft and Google bought hundreds of gift boxes in bulk
“What we were surprised by when we pushed to e-commerce was that, again, it was these brands, big companies like Microsoft, Google, that would purchase 203 108 hundred boxes in one go. Brand the boxes and send them to all their, you know, people on various depa…”
Aug 22, 2020
Microsoft included Driscoll's open-source tool in the Visual Studio installer
“They got ahold of these guys at Microsoft, and then eventually Microsoft promoted it. Like it was, you know, on their website, and it eventually was in the installer for a little while, that kind of thing. You could actually select a feature and install my pro…”
Dec 28, 2020
Steer: Unvested Yammer equity left behind is worth seven figures annually today
“Well, it's, I'd have to go do some stock math because the, my Microsoft shares at that time were worth a fraction of what they would be better now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you look at the price now is it was a seven figure annual type type of amount.”
Apr 10, 2021
Jun 18, 2021 positive
FileCloud targets regulated sectors like military and government for data control
“We have a very unique differentiation where we provide solutions for specific, you know, areas and industries where they need complete data control and privacy. You can imagine organizations like You know, the military intelligence forces, insurance and other …”
Aug 30, 2021 positive
Oct 10, 2021 positive
Mar 20, 2022 neutral
Apr 3, 2022 positive
May 4, 2022
Nicolas Vandenberghe lost a $42M payday when a $60M acquisition collapsed
“Six zero, and I have 72% of the company So I'm about to clear forty-two million, and, ah, and the deal collapsed, and the dot bomb happened, and I had to shut down the company. Actually, I did a deal with Microsoft, but I laid off 65 people, ah, and.”
Sep 20, 2022 neutral
Major cloud data warehouses now offer native data clean room capabilities
“What's interesting is, is a lot of the cloud data warehouses do this, are doing this now. So AWS, GCP Microsoft are trying to do this, and that's where data sharing now happens at the cloud data layer. And then Snowflake and Databricks have capabilities around…”
Apr 16, 2024 positive
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Apr 16, 2024
LMS365 bootstrapped to $18M ARR before raising a $20M Series A
“The Series A was for twenty million. So it was actually under the premise that we have a world-class cash flow engine. When you sell to Microsoft customers, they're used to paying upfront. So that made us bootstrapped all the way up to eighteen million dollars…”
May 28, 2024 negative
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024 neutral
Jul 18, 2024 positive
Stack Overflow co-sells enterprise software alongside Microsoft Azure sales representatives
“We are very big partners of theirs. We actually engage with them in their, ah, you know, their Azure partnership area, if you call it, the ISP program. And we align with their reps to be able to go and sell into accounts jointly.”
Feb 18, 2025
Chili Piper killed its inbox product over Gmail and Microsoft friction
“We actually had, at some point, an inbox as well, and the inbox was allowing buyers to see their entire buyer's journey and see who at the company emailed, what they did, and so forth. We killed it because we realized that it's going to be so hard to get peopl…”