#192: Built A Vertical SaaS Giant In Aviation Without VC Funding – Dinakara Nagalla

by PE Support | Apr 16, 2026

  Dinakara Nagalla built EmpowerMX over more than a decade to digitize aircraft maintenance for major airlines like American, Southwest, and United. Starting from deep domain experience inside aviation IT, he tackled a complex, high-stakes...

#191: No Investors the 2nd Time – Bootstrapped to a Bigger Exit – Chad Ingram

by PE Support | Apr 9, 2026

  Chad Ingram is the founder of Distro, an AI recruiting software company that helps mid-market and enterprise companies automate candidate screening, vetting, ranking, and scheduling. He previously built Jump, a venture-backed customer engagement...

#190: Building Faster with AI-Powered Product Demos That Convert – Joseph Lee

by PE Support | Apr 2, 2026

  Joseph Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Supademo, a fast-growing SaaS company solving a common pain: quickly creating new product demos. In just two and a half years, they built a modern, AI-powered solution that dramatically simplifies how...

#189: How Lighter Capital Finances Bootstrapped SaaS Growth – Tanner Kovacevich

by PE Support | Mar 26, 2026

  Tanner Kovacevich of Lighter Capital joins Greg Head to explain how non-dilutive financing works for practical SaaS founders. Since 2010, Lighter Capital has funded hundreds of recurring-revenue SaaS companies that want growth capital without...

#188: The Practical Long Game: 25 Years Scaling QuestionPro – Vivek Bhaskaran

by PE Support | Mar 19, 2026

  Vivek Bhaskaran is the founder and CEO of QuestionPro, a bootstrapped survey and customer-experience research software platform that they have been building for more than 25 years. Based in the Bay Area, Vivek has grown the company globally without...