Guests
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Allan Branch
1 episode
Allan's story is a fascinating reversal from consulting to SaaS and back to consulting. After selling LessAccounting, Allan has gone returned to consulting. Fun fact, the heading on the home page of Less Accounting used to say "All accounting software sucks. We just suck less." That's Allan for you.
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Anthony Eden
1 episode
Anthony is the creator of DNSimple, and he's the only person I've ever seen give a talk at a conference while knee-deep in the ocean. He's taken an industry with a traditionally terrible user and customer experiences and made managing domains and DNS almost fun. He has some great wisdom to share from his years running a critical infrastructure business.
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Ben Curtis
1 episode
Ben Curtis is the co-founder of Honeybadger, a SaaS-based exception-tracking tool. He's been involved in the Ruby community since 2005, and he's the original creator of RailsKits in 2008.
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Brennan Dunn
1 episode
Brennan is the Co-founder of RightMessage. Before that, he built and sold Planscope, a SaaS application for freelancers. He also created Double Your Freelancing which helped start the idea that eventually became RightMessage.
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Drew Wilson
1 episode
Drew's story is great because his success evolved out of his desire to create things. From the outside, Drew may seem like he has couldn't focus to save his life, but each thing he has created ultimately played a role in helping him understand what to build. After bootstrapping his early projects, Drew has raised a small round of funding to focus on Plasso full time.
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Jaimee Newberry
1 episode
Jaimee worked in the Web Interaction Design & Development industry from 1998-2013 with emphasis on empathetic and behavioral psychology-applied design for web, mobile web, iOS + Android applications. A nasty spell of Life Burnout after the loss of her dad in 2012 caused her to redesign her life using the tools gained from a 15-year award-winning digital design career.
By 2014 she was being booked a year in advance to speak at events around the world, an active podcaster, writer, executive coach, 'reinvention-ist', and self-proclaimed professional experimenter. She learned how to own her time and pour her focus into working on things she loves, with people she loves working with - then teach others how to do the same.
Currently, she's the co-founder and CEO of Picture This Clothing (PTC). PTC started as a passion project launched by a single Tweet from her personal Twitter account the morning of March 17, 2016, had a TechCrunch write-up by the end of the same day, and a viral burst immediately following. Now it's her full-time focus.
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Josh Williams
1 episode
Josh has done it all. Early in his career, he started Firewheel Design and bootstrapped Blinksale, IconBuffet, and PackRat. Those experiences eventually lead to raising money to create Gowalla which was latter acquired by Facebook. After spending some time at Facebook, Josh got some of the Gowalla team back together to create Last Guide which was eventually wound down without launching. These days, Josh is focused on freelance design work. Josh's variety of experiences has given him some incredible perspective on building software businesses.
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Matt Goldman
1 episode
Matt Goldman is the CEO of Churn Buster. While he and his wife, Joelle, started out bootstrapping SaaS apps, they more recently acquired Churn Buster, an app that specializes in helping SaaS apps handle and recover failed payments.
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Mike Perham
1 episode
Mike is the founder of Contributed Systems where he has turned open source success into a very healthy and profitable one-man business. With Sidekiq and Inspeqtor, Mike has shown that open source work can be a great launching point for a software business.
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Natalie Nagele
1 episode
Natalie's journey is fascinating because it's not just about a growing software company. She has been the driving force behind the family-focused culture of Wildbit and helped show that successful and healthy software businesses can be built with a deep foundation of caring about employees and their families.
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Nathan Barry
1 episode
Nathan is an author and the founder of ConvertKit where he's built something he wanted and worked to expand and grow it quickly despite getting off to a slow start.
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Pat Allan
1 episode
Pat is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. As the maintainer of the open source project, Thinking Sphinx, Pat is as patient and helpful on the mailing list as anyone could possibly be. He's taken that success and turned it into a Heroku Add-on, Flying Sphinx.
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Rachel Andrew
1 episode
Rachel is a self-taught developer and the co-founder of Perch, a really little CMS. In addition to Perch, she regularly speaks all over the world about CSS and has written several books and articles as well. She's a member of the CSS Working Group and a Google Developer Expert.
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Steve McLeod
1 episode
Steve runs Barbary Software, in Barcelona, Spain where he makes Feature Upvote, which allows your customers to openly suggest and upvote features they want to see in your product. He created Feature Upvote to solve his own pain point with tracking feature requests for his consumer software. Feature Upvote is his first B2B SaaS where previously he only sold B2C desktop apps. Although he lives in Spain, he's originally from New Zealand. New Zealand consistently ranks as the #1 country for ease of doing business, whereas Spain is a complicated place to run a business. Oops!
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Thomas Smale
1 episode
Thomas is the founder and CEO of FE International, a website and application broker.
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Tracy Osborn
1 episode
Tracy is an outstanding example of a self-taught coder who has both bootstrapped as well as raised some funding for her projects. In addition to building Wedding Lovely, she's written several books on building Python web apps. She went through a heartbreaking courtship with Etsy only receive a low-ball offer from which she ultimately decided to walk away. Through it all, she's done an incredibly job of sustaining and finding ways to make it work.
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