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#213: She Took on a Growth Equity Partner for the Advice, Not the Money – Lynn Burghardt

#213: She Took on a Growth Equity Partner for the Advice, Not the Money – Lynn Burghardt

by PE Support | Sep 10, 2026

Lynn Burghardt is a fifth-generation owner of Burghardt Sporting Goods — the oldest family-owned sporting goods store in the country, founded in 1881. Chipply grew out of that business: after years of hacking together their own tools for team apparel...
#212: The Practical Case for Payments-Driven SaaS Growth – Jay Maharaj

#212: The Practical Case for Payments-Driven SaaS Growth – Jay Maharaj

by PE Support | Sep 3, 2026

Jay Maharaj built TeamLinkt in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a place not known for software. He saw the problem while coaching his own kids: the hockey team had a budget for a team communication app, and the soccer team didn’t, so he either paid for it...
#211: This Practical Bootstrapper Scaled Up and Became a Serial Acquirer – Ajay Gupta

#211: This Practical Bootstrapper Scaled Up and Became a Serial Acquirer – Ajay Gupta

by PE Support | Aug 27, 2026

Ajay Gupta founded Stirista in San Antonio after helping with micro-targeting a presidential campaign. His first product identified people who spoke a second language for multicultural marketing — built from scanned baby-name books, a hundred thousand first...
#210: 4th Time Founder: Solve Distribution First, Write Code After – Vic Levitin

#210: 4th Time Founder: Solve Distribution First, Write Code After – Vic Levitin

by PE Support | Aug 20, 2026

Vic Levitin is a serial founder who built companies in Israel for two decades before fleeing the war with his young family to the island of Koh Samui, Thailand. His first SaaS company, CrazyLister, grew out of his own e-commerce business where he needed a...
#209: Leading from Both Sides of the Table as a PE-Backed SaaS CEO – Steve Oriola

#209: Leading from Both Sides of the Table as a PE-Backed SaaS CEO – Steve Oriola

by PE Support | Aug 13, 2026

Steve Oriola isn’t the founder of Unbounce — he’s the CEO that Crest Rock Partners brought in to run and transform it. A sales-and-marketing software veteran who spent a decade at Constant Contact, and even ran Act! for a spell (ACT! is the...
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