Practical Founders Podcast
Real stories from founders who built valuable companies without big funding
Every week, Greg interviews a successful software founder who started, grew, and often sold a valuable software company without big VC funding. Over $11 billion in founder equity value has been created by 150+ founder guests — an average of $70 million per company. These stories are rarely told anywhere else.
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TJ Joosten is the co-founder of RevFixr, a pricing and monetization consultancy that helps SaaS companies improve pricing, packaging, and revenue growth. Before starting RevFixr, TJ spent a decade building and selling software, ...
Rupert Mayer is the founder of IPfolio, a vertical SaaS platform built for corporate intellectual property teams to manage patents, trademarks, renewals, and innovation workflows. Originally from Austria, ...
Eric Ries is the entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, whose work helped software founders validate ideas faster and build companies without making huge bets upfront. After years helping startups, large ...
Marc Sanderson is the founder and CEO of INNERGY, but he didn’t start as a software founder. After earning his MBA and searching for a company to buy, he and partner Walter Wilkie acquired a small architectural ...
Blakely Graham co-founded TaskRay, a project management and customer onboarding platform built inside the Salesforce ecosystem. After years working with Salesforce implementations and operations teams, she and ...
Andy Alsop didn’t start The Receptionist—he bought a small iPad-based visitor management app in 2013 for $250K and turned it into a real SaaS business. What began as a simple front-desk check-in tool evolved into a ...
Sharon Nouh built ProSpend, a spend management SaaS platform for mid-market companies, after seeing firsthand how broken expense processes were in corporate travel. Starting with an expense tool, focused on her home ...
Perry Rosenbloom, founder of LaunchBay, previously built and sold Brighter Vision before starting his second SaaS company focused on onboarding. After running hundreds of onboarding processes per month, he saw ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Juan Ignacio Garcia Braschi is a partner at L40, a boutique SaaS M&A advisory firm with offices in Madrid, Lisbon, and Miami. After two decades in banking, private equity, and operating roles, including serving as ...
Simon Swords founded Fundipedia after starting in a backyard shed, building bespoke software. Originally a custom development shop, his firm built a data governance platform for major buy-side asset managers ...
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