SaaS Pirates: Recent Episodes
Mike Slaats
Actionable learnings and growth strategies from both starting and successful leading SaaS companies. Short and to-the-point interviews with founders. Join our awesome FB group to stay connected: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates/
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Today’s guest is Enzo, the founder of June - a tool to visualize and measure the metrics for subscription businesses. In this episode, we’ll discover how they’re growing 10% month-over-month and why you should monetize as quickly as you can.
Sponsor of today's episode: Grain - Record, transcribe, clip, and share the most important moments from your video meetings: https://grain.com/saaspirates
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Named in this episode: Sergio Mattei (Founder of Makerlog), Slack, June, Pieter Levels (aka Levels io), Spotify, Intercom, Rework the book, Des Traynor.
Vedran is the founder of Treblle. In this episode, we’re talking about how they scaled their software, which makes it super easy to understand your product’s API, to 6k MRR and how they are growth hacking their marketing through smart content strategies.
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Tim Leland is the founder of t.ly. And, in this episode we’re talking about how Tim scaled his business to now $5k MRR and some of the growth hacks he applied, such as building free separate tools to attract new leads!
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Today’s guest is Farzad Rashidi, and he’s the founder of Respona. Farzad initially joined the Visme team as the first marketing hire, helping the company reach over 2M monthly organic traffic and surpass 13 million active users. That journey led to the creation of Respona, which was, what they called, “the secret weapon” of their marketing team. This awesome episode is brought to you by Upvoty - which are today’s sponsor. Upvoty is a user feedback tool which makes it really easy to collect and manage user feedback in order to decide what features to build next. If you want to give it a go, head over to https://upvoty.com and use the promo code PIRATES for a 10% discount.
Favorites:
Brands: Ahrefs
Software: Ahrefs, Respona, Todoist
Person: Noah Kagan
Books: How Not To Be Wrong
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Today’s guest is Tadej, and he’s the founder of Cartboss. In this episode, you’re going to learn how they are scaling the business with a 150% month-over-month growth and how building and connecting with your audience upfront can actually benefit the launch of your new product.
Favorites:
Brands: Wheelio
Software: Slack, HelpScout
Person: Karlo Bradica
Books: The Lean Startup
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Adam is the founder of Split Hero, and today, he’ll be sharing the story on how he bootstrapped his Wordpress plugin and how he’s leveraging the platform to acquire customers.
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Favorites:
Brands: Postmark
Software: Upvoty, Spark
Books: Rich Dad, Poor Dad (https://amzn.to/3o43svB)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Jane is the co-founder of Userlist, and today she’ll be sharing the story on how they launched their product, how they scaled their team, and how they’re using a mix of marketing channels to grow their user base. [DISCOUNT] Special discount for Userlist: Userlist.com/Pirates
NEW! Check out Mike's new podcast: https://foundermornings.com
Favorites:
Brands: Postmark
Person: -
Software: Savvycal, Help Scout, Front
Books: Start with Why (https://amzn.to/3HHX7NI)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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David is the founder of Hotglue, and today, he’ll be sharing the story of how he and his co-founder, as two college sophomores, dropped out of school to work full-time on our product.
NEW! Check out Mike's new podcast: https://foundermornings.com
Favorites:
Brands: Zapier
Person: Justin Kahn
Software: Spark
Books: Lean B2B (https://amzn.to/31hCDvk)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Guillaume is the Founder of Lemlist, and in this episode he’ll be sharing the story of how he and two co-founders grew Lemlist into 10 million dollars ARR in just 2,5 years. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Webflow
Person: Russell Brunson
Software: Notion, Slack.
Books: Lost and Founder (https://amzn.to/2ZQvn9g)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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You've asked for it, so here it is. An interview with yours truly on how I built and scaled my SaaS business Upvoty into $17,000 MRR today. The interview was initially recorded for the Indie Bites podcast (https://indiebites.co/) So this is an interview with me, Mike Slaats, the founder of Upvoty and host of SaaS Pirates.
Favorites:
Book: Intercom on Starting Up (https://amzn.to/3BoOchq)
Person: Arvid Kahl
Podcast: Indie Bites!
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Iris is the founder of Oribi, a unique marketing analytics tool that captures every single event visitors perform on your website, all without using code. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Fullstory
Person: Dave Gerhardt (Drift)
Software: Fullstory, Slack
Books: Shoe dog (https://amzn.to/3hkZVWa)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Jeroen Corthout, he is the co-founder & CEO of Salesflare, a simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B. In today’s episode we’ll learn how to gain market share in a highly competitive market and how they grew to over 2,000 customers. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Zapier
Software: Hubspot
Books: Shoe dog (https://amzn.to/3hkZVWa)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Troy is the co-founder of Seller.tools, a full suite of tools leveraging Amazon data to take your business to new heights. In this episode, we’ll learn why Speed and execution are important and how Seller.tools scaled to 12,000 dollars MRR. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Sponsor: Oribi - Google Analytics alternative to get better insights (20% off via https://oribi.io/saaspirates)
Favorites:
Brands: Notion, Gusto
Software: Jira, Asana, Notion
Person: Nathan Latka
Books: Rework (https://amzn.to/3sI4wpz)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Thomas Evans is the founder of EmailOctopus, which is awesome email marketing software to help you get your message out to your customers. I this episode, we’re talking about how EmailOctopus is competing in a highly competitive market and how they managed to scale to 1.4 million dollars ARR. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Sponsor: Oribi - Google Analytics alternative to get better insights (20% off via https://oribi.io/saaspirates)
Favorites:
Brands: Squarespace
Software: Zapier, Helpscout, Slack
Books: Rework (https://amzn.to/3sI4wpz)
Person: Peter Levels
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Peter is the CEO of Databox, software that pulls all your data into one place, so you can track performance and discover insights in real-time. In this episode, we’ll talk about the founding story of databox, how they’re working remotely, and how they grew to an amazing ARR of over 4 million dollars. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Sponsor: Synder (https://synder.com/?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=mikesaas&utm_campaign=07.14.2021)
Favorites:
Brands: Hubspot
Software: Upvoty, Intercom, Hubspot
Books: Traction (https://amzn.to/3kfdjNJ)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
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Mike Korba is the CCO at User.com, a Marketing Automation platform that helps online SaaS businesses turn visitors into happy customers. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Figma
Software: ClickUp, Figma
Books: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (https://amzn.to/3AcPiwx)
Person: Patrick Campbell (Profitwell), Natalie Luneva
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Dave is the founder of Reflection.app, the only digital journal that guides your personal growth each month.. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Stripe
Software: Upvoty (user feedback), Slack, Klaviyo
Books: Anything you want (https://amzn.to/2TI0Ozh)
Person: Sahil (Gumroad), Jason Fried
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Rick is the founder of SiteGuru a full site audit that gives you a prioritized SEO report so you can work on an actionable list of search engine optimisations. He shares his story on how he build this side project while still working on another job. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Stripe
Software: Smartlook
Books: Getting real (https://amzn.to/34ZlRQ6)
Person: Julian Shapiro
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Josh is the founder of Zencastr, which is amazing software to record your podcast (we ourselves record the SaaS Pirates Podcast in Zencastr as well!). Zencastr was the first Podcast Recording Software in the space and they managed to scale it to $2,000,000 MRR already. Listen and learn from its founder in this episode. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Baremetrics
Software: Intercom, Baremetrics
Books: Traction (https://amzn.to/3p6Ak6d)
Person: Josh Pigford
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Victor is the founder of Webautomation.io, which is software to Extract Data instantly from any website in seconds without coding, to basically turn any Website into a Spreadsheet or API. 15% discount we offer https://webautomation.io/28/saaspirates/. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Calendly
Books: Zero to One (https://amzn.to/3uGdyUF)
Person: Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Ruth is the co-founder of ReConvert, a Shopify app to easily build thank you pages that convert. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Shopify
Tools: Slack, Zoom
Books: Atomic Habits (https://amzn.to/3nWxhfZ)
Person: Noah Kagan (AppSumo)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Helen is the Marketing manager at Hostman, a cloud platform that deploys and scales your web apps and websites. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brand: Miro.
Tools: Zoom.
Book: When Coffee and Kale Compete (https://amzn.to/3sSQJLG)
Person: Dharmesh Shah (Founder and CTO of HubSpot).
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Julien Danjou is the founder of Mergify, a tool that makes your code merge faster by automating your pull requests that is doing around $150,000 ARR. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brand: Stripe.
Tools: Datadog. Slack.
Book: Traction (https://amzn.to/2RyluIJ).
Person: Nathan Barry.
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Michael Borgelt is the founder and CEO of BionicWP, the WordPress platform for freelancers, businesses, and agencies for combining all of your favorite tools into one. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Front, Intercom.
Tools: Front, Slack, Integromat.
Books: Product-Led Growth (https://amzn.to/3ryOQ61)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Mike: https://twitter.com/mikedotsaas/ & https://instagram.com/mikedotsaas/
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Kateryna is the founder of Audext, an automatic transcription software to convert your audio files to text. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Ahrefs
Tools: Slack, Evernote, Fastspring.
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
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Antoine “Anthony” Goret is the CMO of Crisp, an all-in-one multichannel messaging platform that connects companies & customers. In a highly competitive market, they are rapidly growing. In today’s episode, we learn more about the marketing behind Crisp and Antoine shares how doing demos is key to onboarding new customers. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Drift
Tools: Crisp, HREFS, Slack.
Books: Nir Eyal (https://amzn.to/3rsnboh and https://amzn.to/3t1ylRo)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Alex Green is the co-founder and CEO of PickyStory, a Shopify tool that can help you quickly upsell with bundles from your product pages. They launched their Shopify app in beta to learn from users and once they launched, they were profitable within months with an MRR of multiple thousands of dollars. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: HubSpot
Books: Purple Cow (https://amzn.to/3bbcpgw)
Person: Seth Godin
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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When Danny's furnace broke, it took 30 hours for the technician to come to his house, but only 30 seconds to fix it. He immediately thought this could be done more efficient. Out of his own frustrations he built ICwhatUC, a customer self-service support tool that uses augmented video to simplify customer-driven, in-home services. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Slack
Books: The Advantage (https://amzn.to/3bF4kQ1), The Entrepreneurial Revolution (https://amzn.to/3dLUy19)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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Thibaud is the co-founder of Loomly, which he founded with his spouse. Loomly provides marketing teams with all the tools, workflows and insights they need to build a successful brand online. They are growing 100% year-over-year and are hitting 7-figures ARR with their SaaS. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Shopify
Books: How to win friends and influence people (https://amzn.to/3pnUlDB)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
[DISCOUNT OFFER] User feedback tool: https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PIRATE').
Tobias Lins is the FOUNDER of Splitbee, a friendly all-in-one analytics & conversion platform that helps to grow your SaaS. As always, we would like to hear more of the founding story and the strategies that accelerated their growth success. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: CloudFlare
Books: Refactoring UI (https://refactoringui.com/)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
[DISCOUNT OFFER] User feedback tool: https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PIRATE').
Jim Coleman is the co-founder of xFusion, a tool that provides startups the customer support they need in order to grow their business. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Zapier, Basecamp
Persons: Dan Martell
Books: Good to great (https://amzn.to/3iZN5MQ), 7 habits of highly effective people (https://amzn.to/3oCynMZ).
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
[DISCOUNT OFFER] User feedback tool: https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PIRATE').
Marko Saric is the co-founder of Plausible.io, a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool what they call a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Basecamp
Persons: Rand Fishkin
Books: This is Marketing (https://amzn.to/3o7N0Y8), Rework (https://amzn.to/3sI4wpz)
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
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Dhanraj is the Product Marketing Manager at Wotnot, a chatbot to help businesses generate qualified leads and scale their support. His biggest lesson learned: “Narrow down your ICP (ideal customer profile) as much as you can”. In this episode, you’ll hear his point of view. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Gong.io
Persons: Jason Fried
Books: Hooked by Nir Eyal (https://amzn.to/3nRUVbR), Never Split the Difference (https://amzn.to/3oW5Cf5)
Tools and Apps: Reddit, Slack
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
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Nicolas Vandenberghe is the CEO of Chili Piper and the founder of productivity tool KosmoTime, which he recently launched in August of 2020 on Product Hunt. He describes KosmoTime as a To Do List with Super Powers.
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Favorites:
Brands: Slack, Figma
Persons: David Cancel (Drift)
Books: Essays by Paul Graham
Tools and Apps: Slack, Google Docs
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
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Jessica is the founder of Woosa, a platform where you can get the most popular WooCommerce plugins for your Wordpress e-commerce website such as plugins for Amazon, Zalando, and eBay. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Heineken
Persons: Reed Hastings from Netflix, Daniel Ek from Spotify
Books: Think and Grow Rich (https://amzn.to/3nv8O0f)
Tools and Apps: Slack, Jira, Zendesk
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
[DISCOUNT OFFER] User feedback tool: https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PIRATE').
Anan is the founder of Listnr, a tool to create your own podcast based on a blog post or text with translations to over more than 18 languages. He pivoted from a “Spotify for News” app and today he shares his journey. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Slack, Baremetrics
Persons: Arvid Kahl
Books: The Art of War (https://amzn.to/3gokoHW)
Tools and Apps: Notion, Slack, Scribd, Github
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
[DISCOUNT OFFER] User feedback tool: https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PIRATE').
Arvid Kahl is the author of Zero to Sold and founder of FeedbackPanda, which he recently sold. This year, he started a new SaaS company called PermanentLink and he is also writing his second book Audience First in public. He’s sharing his lessons in building, scaling, and selling his SaaS and also how he self-published and sold his first book with the help of Gumroad. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Transistor.fm, Basecamp
Persons: Justin Jackson, Rob Walling, Tyler Tringas
Books: The 4-hour workweek (https://amzn.to/2K3EpaM), E-myth (https://amzn.to/2VRjCKf), Built to Sell (https://amzn.to/2VPIWQE)
Tools & Apps: Twitter
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mikeslaats/, https://instagram.com/mikeslaats, vlog https://youtube.com/mikedotsaas
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Kilian Valkhof is the founder of Polypane, a browser for developing responsive & accessible websites. In this episode, he talks about creating a tool for the developer community, copycats, and his biggest lessons learned. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brands: Webflow, InVision, Intercom, Makerlog, Prototypr, Stark, AppSignal.
Persons: Rob Walling, Patrick McKenzie (patio11).
Books: Starting and Sustaining, Don't Just Roll the Dice (https://amzn.to/2Jw87VT), The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together (https://amzn.to/3qpat9B).
Tools: Trello, Toggl, Github
Apps: Twitter
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Rachit is the founder of Stackby, a tool that gives you the building blocks - such as spreadsheets, databases and APIs - in an all-in-one flexible platform to plan, manage and automate your work. They are at $50,000 MRR and the initial growth came from AppSumo. He shares his valuable lessons in this episode. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
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Brand: Intercom, Hubspot
Person: Nathan Latka, Dan Martell
Book: Zero to One (https://amzn.to/3g3ga8j)
Tools: Slack, Zoom
Apps: Techcrunch
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Pierre de Wulf is the founder of ScrapingBee, which is an API for scraping the web by handling headless browsers and rotating proxies. They’re currently at $15,000 dollars MRR. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
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Brand: Lemlist
Person: Arvid Kahl, Nathan Latka
Tools: Todoist, Notion, Slack, Spark email, Datadog
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Dennis Smink is the founder of Ploi.io, which is software that makes it easy to manage your own servers and sites with any server provider. As always, we would like to hear more of the founding story and the strategies that accelerated their growth success. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brand: Upvoty
Tools: PHPstorm, Crisp, Discord, Upvoty
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Yannick Veys is the co-founder of HypeFury, a tool to grow and monetize your Twitter audience. They grew from an MRR of just $5 thousand dollars into currently $11,000 dollars in just a couple of months. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!
Favorites:
Brand: Baremetrics
Person: Arvid Kahl
Book: Atomic Habits (https://amzn.to/2Vw2No0)
Tools: Todoist, XMind, Twist, Ahrefs
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/saaspirates.
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