saas.unbound

Anna Nadeina
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saas.unbound is a podcast where inspiring founders and experts share their stories of founding and scaling their businesses all the way to success and eternal love from their customers. At saas.unbound we have casual chats with entrepreneurs who have already walked from 0 to 1, to 10, and sometimes to a life-changing exit. They share their experiences, actionable insights, and mistakes to avoid. Your host is Anna Nadeina, Head of Growth at saas.group, passionate Growth Marketer, and a big believer in sustainable growth and the power of networking. saas.unbound is brought to you by saas.group

  1. How to build a dev tool with zero marketing with Sergiy Korolov @Mailtrap

    8 HR AGO

    How to build a dev tool with zero marketing with Sergiy Korolov @Mailtrap

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #10 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Sergiy Korolov, co-founder of Railsware and the brain behind Mailtrap. From accidentally launching one of the most popular developer tools with zero marketing budget, to running the company with an all-engineer team — Sergiy's journey is packed with lessons most founders learn the hard way. In this episode: → How Mailtrap grew to hundreds of thousands of users before charging a cent → The "product studio" model Railsware uses to co-found new companies → Why bootstrapping forces better decisions than VC money → The hard truth about vibe coding and AI's real impact on engineering teams → How to hire when you don't know enough to assess the role → Why your biggest job as CEO is to stop having sleepless nights ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:05 — Introduction & Product Overview 0:27 — Background & Early Days of Railsware 3:51 — Building Product Studio Culture 6:58 — Creating Mailtrap - From Tool to Platform 14:10 — Developing Product Taste & Skills Matrix 19:25 — Hiring Strategy & Team Building 27:22 — Dogfooding & Product Development Process 35:24 — AI Integration in Products & Engineering 44:16 — Wins, Lessons & The Calendly Story 48:26 — Founder Hacks & Work-Life Balance Sergiy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiykorolov/ Railaware - https://railsware.com/ Mailtrap - https://mailtrap.io/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    55 min
  2. How to execute a complete SaaS company pivot in ONE DAY with Simon Manz @entitys.io

    2 MAR

    How to execute a complete SaaS company pivot in ONE DAY with Simon Manz @entitys.io

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #9 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Simon Manz, founder of entitys.io, a cloud-based Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform specifically designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the B2B sector. Simon joins the podcast to unpack one of the hardest pivots in SaaS: transforming a professional services company into a product-focused software business. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:05 — Introduction & Product Overview 1:24 — Simon's Background & Journey to Entities 3:03 — Pivoting from Services to SaaS Product 7:14 — Culture Change & Team Transformation 12:36 — Identifying the Right ICP 15:00 — Building Relationships in B2B Mid-Market 22:38 — Why Bootstrap vs VC Funding 25:48 — Positioning & Marketing Strategy 28:13 — Building Reviews & Community 36:19 — Wins, Failures & Key Lessons Simon - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-manz/ entitys - entitys.io Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    45 min
  3. Why your next recruiter might be a bot: inside AI-first hiring with Max Armbruster @ Talkpush

    23 FEB

    Why your next recruiter might be a bot: inside AI-first hiring with Max Armbruster @ Talkpush

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #8 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Max Armbruster, founder of Talkpush, a conversational AI-driven recruitment platform designed to automate high-volume hiring processes. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:05 — Introduction and Hiring Challenges 1:18 — First Principles of Recruitment 3:44 — Bias and Company Culture 6:07 — Founder Involvement in Hiring 7:56 — TalkPush Origin Story 9:26 — Building a Remote International Team 13:03 — Remote Work Culture and Cadence 20:37 — AI Voice Interviews and Screening 24:03 — Preventing Cheating in AI Interviews 30:51 — Bootstrap vs VC Funding Journey 41:44 — Lessons Learned and Actionable Advice Max - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxarmbruster/ Talkpush - https://www.talkpush.com/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    46 min
  4. Why building B2C SaaS was easier for me with with Benjamin Houy @ CopyCat Cafe

    16 FEB

    Why building B2C SaaS was easier for me with with Benjamin Houy @ CopyCat Cafe

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #7 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Benjamin Houy, founder of CopyCat Cafe, an AI-powered language learning platform—formerly known as French Together—that helps users learn French by imitating native speakers rather than focusing on traditional grammar rules. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:05 — Introduction & Background 1:11 — Starting CopyCat Cafe 6:03 — Competing with Duolingo 10:46 — Building Lowlight (GEO Tool) 14:34 — Lessons from B2B vs B2C 17:31 — Working with a Co-founder 26:08 — Growth Strategies 29:57 — Rebranding to CopyCat Cafe 36:01 — Biggest Wins & Failures 39:18 — AI Empowerment at SaaS Group Benjamin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminhouy/ CopyCat Cafe - https://copycatcafe.com/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796 saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies.

    43 min
  5. How 25 SaaS brands use AI and leverage agents with Belma Ibrahimovic @saas.group

    9 FEB

    How 25 SaaS brands use AI and leverage agents with Belma Ibrahimovic @saas.group

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #6 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Belma Ibrahimovic, Head of AI at saas.group, a founder-friendly acquirer of B2B SaaS companies and a global team of passionate SaaS operators building the future of software. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:00 — Introduction & Belma's Background 2:44 — Is Anyone Behind in AI? 6:14 — Where to Draw the Line with AI 9:46 — Can AI Replace Teams? 14:26 — AI Empowerment at SaaS Group 18:06 — Learning Resources & Time Investment 21:50 — How Brands Use AI in Products 30:44 — Building with AI: Technical Challenges 35:23 — Staying Ahead in AI 39:47 — Biggest Wins & Failures 45:42 — Practical AI Hack: Using Projects Belma - https://www.linkedin.com/in/belma-ibrahimovic/ Saas.group - https://saas.group/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    50 min
  6. How to rebrand a SaaS after hitting $1M ARR and not kill it with Iliya Valchanov @Juma

    2 FEB

    How to rebrand a SaaS after hitting $1M ARR and not kill it with Iliya Valchanov @Juma

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #5 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Iliya Valchanov, founder of Juma, an AI workspace platform built for marketing teams to collaborate and create on-brand content. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:00 — Introduction & Background 2:44 — The OpenAI Letter & Rebrand Trigger 5:35 — The Power of Product Communities 8:03 — Finding Product-Market Fit at $1M ARR 9:22 — Choosing the Name: Just Marketing 10:14 — The Vision: AI Marketing Super Agent 13:46 — Data Analysis: The Killer Use Case 27:19 — Impact on Growth & SEO 32:02 — AI in Operations: Where to Draw the Line 39:20 — Wins, Failures & Team Changes 42:00 — Growth Hack: Analyzing Customer Calls Iliya - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iliya-valchanov/ Juma - https://juma.ai/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    45 min
  7. How to predict and control your AI SaaS cloud spend with Ed Barrow @Cloud Capital

    26 JAN

    How to predict and control your AI SaaS cloud spend with Ed Barrow @Cloud Capital

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #4 of season 6, Anna nadeina talks with Edward Barrow, Co-Founder & CEO @ Cloud Capital, a Cloud Cost Management platform helping finance (CFOs) and engineering teams control, forecast, and optimize cloud spending, especially on AWS, by bridging financial and technical visibility. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 1:37 — Ed's Journey: From Bootstrap to VC-Backed SaaS 6:48 — Post-Acquisition Life: M&A and Private Equity 9:16 — Cloud Spend Benchmarks: 10-20% of Revenue 12:10 — The Commitment Trap: Saving Money vs Taking Risk 15:39 — AI's Impact on Cloud Economics 20:11 — How Cloud Capital Works: Financial Risk Transfer 29:28 — Building AI-Native: Wisdom Plus Automation 34:01 — Partnership Strategy: Bottom-Up vs Top-Down 41:49 — 20 Years of Lessons: Running at Brick Walls 43:55 — Founder Hack: Walking Meetings Ed - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebarrow/ Cloud Capital - https://www.cloudcapital.co/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    46 min
  8. How to 10x your SaaS product team with an internal community with Arne Kittler @Product at Heart

    19 JAN

    How to 10x your SaaS product team with an internal community with Arne Kittler @Product at Heart

    saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #3 of season 6, Daniel Thulfaut, the Head of Product at saas.group talks with Arne Kittler, co-founder of Product at Heart, a conference for curious product people, and an experienced product management leader, building digital products & services for 25 years. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 0:05 — Introduction and Guest Welcome 2:44 — The Power of Product Communities 5:46 — Internal vs External Communities 10:12 — Building Community at Xing 13:05 — Community Rituals and Values 15:39 — Scaling Challenges and Context 26:19 — Community Formats and Co-Creation 34:54 — Fractional Leadership Roles 39:28 — When Part-Time Leadership Works 44:13 — Managing Time and Priorities Arne - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnekittler/ Product at Heart - https://productatheart.com/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

    50 min
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saas.unbound is a podcast where inspiring founders and experts share their stories of founding and scaling their businesses all the way to success and eternal love from their customers. At saas.unbound we have casual chats with entrepreneurs who have already walked from 0 to 1, to 10, and sometimes to a life-changing exit. They share their experiences, actionable insights, and mistakes to avoid. Your host is Anna Nadeina, Head of Growth at saas.group, passionate Growth Marketer, and a big believer in sustainable growth and the power of networking. saas.unbound is brought to you by saas.group

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  • Creator
    Anna Nadeina
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    276
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Anna Nadeina 2023
  • Show Website
    saas.unbound

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