#171: Lessons from a 9-Year Bootstrap Journey to a Private Equity Exit – Dharshan Rangegowda

by PE Support | Nov 20, 2025

  Dharshan Rangegowda, founder of ScaleGrid, left a decade-long engineering career at Microsoft to solve a painful database operations problem he had lived firsthand. After early missteps selling to enterprises, he shifted to helping developers manage...

#170: Why Most SaaS Acquirers Still Want Profitable Growth in 2025 – Gaurav Bhasin

by PE Support | Nov 13, 2025

  Gaurav Bhasin is the founder and managing director of Allied Advisers, an M&A advisory firm whose principals have completed over 100 sell-side transactions for software and tech founders. After two decades in investment banking and tech M&A,...

#169: Practical Pivot and Relaunch Created Profitable 200% Growth – Natalie Barbu

by PE Support | Nov 6, 2025

  Natalie Barbu is the founder and CEO of Rella, a SaaS platform built to streamline collaboration and workflows for social media teams and agencies. She began as a YouTube creator, grew a following of over 300,000, and then identified the fragmentation of...

#168: These Three Superpowers Set Practical SaaS Founders Apart – Greg Head

by PE Support | Oct 30, 2025

  In this week’s Practical Founders Podcast episode, I share the hidden patterns from over 140 podcast interviews with successful founders, as well as my experience working with more than 40 bootstrapped SaaS founders every month in my Practical Founders...

#167: Practical Founders Brought in CEO to Scale Their Company – Darryl Pahl

by PE Support | Oct 23, 2025

  Darryl Pahl is the co-founder of DFnet, a Seattle-based company providing clinical trial data management software and services. Along with his wife and co-founder, Lisa Ondrejcek, Darryl started the company more than 20 years ago after careers at Fred...