Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing
In this episode, Dan Bladen, co‑founder and CEO of Cadence, discusses how his company helps large enterprises like Revolut, Boeing, and Rolls‑Royce manage hybrid workspaces through a people‑centric booking platform priced at $48‑$80 per user per year. He recounts pivoting from his previous IoT venture, Chargify, to Cadence during the pandemic, leveraging a $22 trillion U.S. corporate real‑estate market and achieving roughly $15 million ARR. Dan also shares insights on fundraising challenges, cap‑table restructuring, and the emerging demand for AI‑driven space‑operations tools.
Who Needs VCs when You Have Friends Like These?
In this episode, Zen Liu, co‑founder and CEO of RunPod, explains how his team bypassed traditional venture‑capital funding and built a GPU‑focused cloud platform directly from community feedback. Starting with basement‑hosted servers, they launched a free, Reddit‑promoted dev‑environment product that...
Will AI Destroy the Software Industry?
The Motley Fool podcast episode "Will AI Destroy the Software Industry?" examines why software stocks have slipped as investors grapple with AI‑driven disruption. Hosts and guests identify SaaS firms most exposed to generative‑AI competition and contrast them with companies positioned...
Grayscale Acquired by Paylocity PLUS Indeed's Community Call
This episode of "This Week in RegTech" covers several major shifts in talent acquisition: Indeed’s new pay‑to‑play model that ends free XML feeds and adds daily budget minimums, Oracle’s AI‑driven Fusion Egentic HR applications, Monday.com’s launch of AgentTalent.ai for hiring...
The ERP Minute Episode 232 - April 7th, 2026
In this brief episode, host Rebecca McCabe highlights three major ERP announcements: Oracle NetSuite's new AI‑powered Restaurant Operations platform, which consolidates inventory, procurement, scheduling, production, and cash management for restaurants; NetSuite's expanded AI Connector Service that lets customers link any...
E303 | Customer Success Is Dead. Meet the Growth Department.
In this episode, host Andrew Michael talks with Alex Bogoski, founder of Amplify and author of *The Growth Department*, about redefining post‑sale teams as a unified "Growth Department" that drives profitable revenue rather than just service. Alex argues that customer...
Easy to Leave
In this episode of Rework, co‑founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson discuss the philosophy behind making software easy to cancel, emphasizing a "no‑questions‑asked" approach and user‑friendly data export. They critique industry practices that create friction—like hidden fees, retention offers,...
1177: Navigating an Acquisition at the Edge of Change | Tom DiDesidero, CFO, SmartRecruiters
In this episode, CFO Tom DiDesidero discusses SmartRecruiters' acquisition by SAP amid a rapidly evolving AI-driven SaaS landscape, highlighting the challenges of fast integration, cultural alignment, and shifting business assumptions. He shares his unconventional career path—from early roles in small...
SaaStr 849: How We Built Our AI VP of Customer Success with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO
In this episode, SaaStr’s CEO and CAIO discuss how they built an AI‑powered VP of Customer Success using no‑code tools like Replit, turning a simple project‑management portal into an autonomous agent that handles onboarding, task tracking, and daily communications for...
Introducing .NET Support on Semaphore
In this product news episode, Semaphore announces native support for the Microsoft development stack, including the .NET SDK and Microsoft Edge for browser testing, all running on its Ubuntu 24.04 image. The new integration eliminates the need for workarounds or...
Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude Is Growing Itself at This Point” | Amol Avasare
Amol Avasare, Head of Growth at Anthropic, explains how the AI startup surged from $1 billion to over $19 billion in annual recurring revenue within just 14 months. The company leverages its own Claude model to automate growth experiments through an internal tool...
Jess Conroy, CEO of ROH, on Building the Financial Core Hotels Never Had
In this episode, Peter Renton interviews Jess Conroy, CEO and co‑founder of Roe, about the massive gap in financial infrastructure within the hospitality industry. Conroy explains how hotels still rely on manual, error‑prone processes to capture, reconcile, and track payments—from...
Lattice and Crosschq Acquire
In this 7‑minute episode of This Week in RegTech, host Chris Russell highlights two major acquisitions shaping talent acquisition: Crosschq’s purchase of Tradeify to create an outcome‑trained hiring model, and Lattice’s acquisition of Mandela’s AI‑native coaching tech to accelerate its...
5 Questions That Drive 80% of Your Growth
In this episode of the eCommerce Playbook, host Richard Gaffin and CTC VP of e‑commerce strategy Luke Austin break down the five core questions that drive the majority of a direct‑to‑consumer brand’s growth work: forecasting targets, optimal channel spend allocation,...
Bootstrapped SaaS Growth When AI Took Over the Market
In this episode, host Omer Khan talks with Sylvester Dupont, the bootstrapped founder of Parser, a B2B SaaS that automates data extraction from documents. Sylvester recounts how the company spent a year building the product without customer input, launched to...
