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The SaaS Podcast - Growing Profitable AI SaaS & AI Agents

The SaaS Podcast - Growing Profitable AI SaaS & AI Agents

Di: Omer Khan
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 Building an AI SaaS is the easy part now. Growing it into a profitable business is the hard part. Every week, a founder gets specific about what actually moved the needle: finding product-market fit, landing customers, pricing, beating AI-native competitors, and getting an AI SaaS or AI agent to real revenue. Host Omer Khan has interviewed 500+ founders. Whether you're taking an AI SaaS or AI agent from zero to $10K MRR or scaling past $1M ARR, you get what actually worked, not theory. Join 5,000+ founders at SaaS Club. New episodes every week. Economia Gestione e leadership Leadership
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  • Founder-Led Sales: From 2% to 20% with 10-Hour Custom Demos

    Founder-Led Sales: From 2% to 20% with 10-Hour Custom Demos
    May 14 2026
    Two years on Quora and Reddit. Zero customers. Yega Kumarappan and his two co-founders had no sales experience. They bet that founder-led sales could beat the B2B sales playbook. Founders will hear how Paperflite grew from a 400K seed to 500 B2B customers and seven figures in ARR while selling SaaS without sales experience. Yega shares the founder-led sales process that took conversion from 2-3% to 17-20%, why he spent 8 to 10 hours setting up a custom demo for every startup sales prospect, and how the team built qualified inbound from Quora and Reddit in their first two years. He also breaks down why Paperflite never raised after the seed and how he competes against the Seismic-Highspot merger. Plus: the Fortune 500 deal that almost died in their Intercom inbox because the team thought it was a prank, and the founder-led sales tactics that produced 26 enterprise customers in year one. This episode is brought to you by: 💖 Gearheart → Book a free consult and get the first 20 hours free 🔑 Key Lessons 🎯 Founder-led sales starts on forums, not LinkedIn: Yega's team spent two years answering Quora and Reddit questions to build qualified inbound, then converted forum readers via LinkedIn DMs and Intercom. 💰 10-hour custom demos beat generic product tours: Pre-building each prospect's actual Paperflite hub (their content, regions, buyer segments) pushed conversion from 2-3% to 17-20%, validated through A/B testing. 🤝 High-touch onboarding is leverage in founder-led sales: Paperflite manually pulled content from SharePoint and shared drives for the first 50 to 70 customers to lock in retention and learn each industry. 🚀 Profitability buys product freedom: A single 400K seed plus year-two profitability let Paperflite rebuild coaching as AI-native and content creation as Canva-like without VC-led roadmap pressure. 🏢 Position between giants and AI point solutions: Seismic-Highspot consolidation creates one big target above and AI-only entrants leave gaps below - mid-tier with deep industry context wins the middle. 📉 Verbal commitments don't predict conversion: Marketing leaders told Paperflite "we love this, we'll buy it" in validation calls and then didn't - rely on the conversations to learn, not the commitments. 🛠️ Run A/B tests on your B2B sales process, not just your product: Paperflite split prospects into self-serve vs we set it up for you cohorts and used the conversion gap (2-3% vs 17-20%) to commit to high-touch demos permanently. Chapters What Paperflite does and the size of the business Origin story at Cognizant and the content distribution problem Leaving stable jobs to start Paperflite Raising the 400K seed in 2018 Validating the prototype with CMOs who didn't buy The Netflix experience for sales content Finding the first customer through Intercom The S&P Global Fortune 500 deal that looked like a prank Two years on Quora and Reddit to build inbound Founder-led sales without self-serve onboarding The 8 to 10 hour custom demo playbook A/B testing demos: 2-3% vs 17-20% conversion Why Paperflite never raised again after seed Competing with the Seismic-Highspot merger Positioning the mid-tier sweet spot Lightning round Resources Full show notes: https://saasclub.io/483 Join 5,000+ SaaS founders: https://saasclub.io/email
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    44 min
  • Bootstrapped SaaS: $12M ARR Across 5 Products With a Team of 10

    Bootstrapped SaaS: $12M ARR Across 5 Products With a Team of 10
    May 7 2026
    Two failed startups. 250K euros in debt. Stuck in Paris with a sick baby and no plan. Tibo Louis-Lucas walked away from a stable CTO job and shipped 11 products in 4 months on unemployment benefits. Today TMAKER is a bootstrapped SaaS startup portfolio doing $1M a month across 5 products with a team of 10. Tibo breaks down the exact signal that told him Tweet Hunter was the one after 10 failures, the JK Molina equity deal that took it from $3K to $20K MRR in 3 weeks, why he regrets selling Tweet Hunter and Taplio for $8 million, and the co-maker model that powers his bootstrapped SaaS startup today. Plus: why Tibo says SEO is the most durable distribution channel for a bootstrapped SaaS startup, even as LLMs reshape search. TMAKER is a bootstrapped SaaS startup studio of 5 products. Outrank crossed $200K MRR. Revid does over $600K a month. The portfolio crossed $1M a month a few weeks before this conversation. This episode is brought to you by: 💖 Gearheart → Book a free consult and get the first 20 hours free 🔍 Respona → Get featured in AI answers on ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews 🔑 Key Lessons 🚀 Distribution is the reusable bootstrapped SaaS startup asset: Tibo built one SEO playbook, one ads pipeline, and one influencer network and reuses them across all 5 TMAKER products. Each new product launches with traffic from day one. 🎯 Validate with revenue, not downloads: Tibo shipped 11 products in 4 months and only kept the one that pulled paying customers. Recurring revenue past month two is the only signal he trusts. 🤝 Equity beats commission for distribution partners: JK Molina got 25% of profits and exit proceeds tied to active work. That tripled Tweet Hunter revenue from $3K to $20K MRR in three weeks. 💰 An earnout can sell you the company twice: Tibo took $2M upfront and earned $8M total against $8M ARR. He calls it selling an $8M business for $8M, and the post-exit void hit harder than the payday felt good. 🛠️ Switch from maker to distribution as you scale: Tibo flipped from builder to distribution operator and partners with co-makers. One distribution operator can power a 5-product bootstrapped SaaS startup that 5 solo founders could not. 🧠 Real PMF is when demand outruns you: Tweet Hunter PMF showed up as overwhelming DMs, feature requests, and signups he could not keep up with. Comfortable growth is not the signal - chaos is. ⚡ AI makes building cheap, so distribution is the moat: Outrank, Revid, and TMAKER survive copycats by owning audience, SEO real estate, and partner networks that compound long after the code ships. Chapters What TMAKER does today Crossing $1M monthly across a bootstrapped SaaS startup portfolio Two failed VC startups and 250K euros in debt Sick baby, COVID, stuck in Paris Shipping 11 products in 4 months Why Tweet Hunter felt different The JK Molina 25 percent equity deal Launching Taplio for LinkedIn Selling to Lempire for $8M and why he regrets it The co-maker model explained SEO as the most durable distribution channel Lightning round Resources Full show notes: https://saasclub.io/482 Join 5,000+ SaaS founders: https://saasclub.io/email
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    49 min
  • AI Startup Hits $8.6M ARR With V0 MVP and €85 Pricing

    AI Startup Hits $8.6M ARR With V0 MVP and €85 Pricing
    Apr 30 2026
    Hadn't coded in four years. No team. No idea. Marius Meiners launched his AI startup, Peec AI, with a V0 prototype built in 1.5 days and 8 letters of intent. 14 months later: $8.6M ARR, 55 employees, and a competitor with 5x his funding chasing enterprise. Marius shows how to validate an AI startup before coding, win the mid-market while competitors chase enterprise, and price your AI startup at €85 a month against incumbents charging €500+. He breaks down the V0 build, the LOI playbook, and how 20% of conversions now come from AI search itself. Peec AI is an AI startup that launched in February 2025 from Antler's Berlin cohort. Marius previously transitioned from professional esports through software engineering and venture capital at PwC. This episode is brought to you by: 🔍 Respona → Get featured in AI answers on ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews 🔑 Key Lessons 🚀 Use AI to compress validation timelines: Marius built the Peec AI MVP with V0 in 1.5 days and signed 8 letters of intent before writing production code. Modern AI tools turn idea-to-validation from months to days. 💰 Mid-market pricing wins when competitors fight enterprise: Peec priced at €85 a month while competitors charged €500+. AI search optimization at the mid-market price point captured 2,000 customers competitors ignored. 🎯 Letters of intent beat verbal validation: Asking "would you sign an LOI?" filters out polite enthusiasm. Marius signed 8 LOIs from a V0 prototype - real signal that the AI startup problem was acute enough to pay for. ⚡ Speed is the moat for AI-era SaaS: Idea in October 2024, launch in February 2025, $8.6M ARR by April 2026. In emerging categories, the founder who ships weekly outpaces the founder who polishes. 🧠 Scrappiness has a shelf life: Eating €2 canned food works at zero revenue. At $8.6M ARR with 55 employees, scrappiness becomes a bottleneck. Most founders break their company by clinging to it past its expiration date. 🚀 Build with AI search optimization in mind from day one: 20% of Peec's new conversions now come from AI search itself. Founders who do not structure content for AI assistants are leaving meaningful pipeline on the table. Chapters What Peec AI does From esports to PwC to startups ChatGPT search and the aha moment for an AI startup Validating ideas in days, not months Knowing AI search optimization was the bet How AI search optimization actually works Free GEO tactics for founders without budget Building the V0 prototype in 1.5 days Getting the first 8 letters of intent The pitch that won early adopters Advice for founders chasing early traction Pricing at €85 vs competitors at €500+ Scaling from LOIs to $8.6M ARR Lightning round Where to find Peec AI Resources Full show notes: https://saasclub.io/481 Join 5,000+ SaaS founders: https://saasclub.io/email
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    36 min
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