Leaders of Growth Podcast

Learn from the mistakes other SaaS leaders already paid for.

Real conversations with SaaS founders, CEOs, CMOs and growth leaders about the calls that didn’t work out, and what they’d do differently now.

Hosted by Milan Savov

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Every episode starts with something that went wrong first.

A hire that didn’t pan out. A channel that quietly stopped pulling its weight. A GTM plan that had to be scrapped halfway through. A founder who realized they’d become the thing slowing the company down.

What are you trying to figure out right now?

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Growth & GTM

How do you turn growth into pipeline you can actually count on?

Positioning, product market fit, and building a go to market motion that still works once you’re past the first few customers.

02

Marketing & AI

What does AI actually change for your marketing?

SEO, AI driven discovery, content, attribution and figuring out where automation genuinely helps versus where it just looks like progress.

03

Sales & Revenue

Why does revenue stall even when the team keeps growing?

Founder led sales, ABM, SDR performance, and what it takes to build a revenue engine that scales past the founder.

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Founder & Leadership

Has the company outgrown the way you’re running it?

Hiring, delegating, decision making, and the shift from being needed everywhere to being needed where it matters.

Start with the problem you're actually dealing with

Ep 16 The 90-Day SaaS Revenue Scaling Framework by Olya GrovelOlya Grovel · Operating Partner, SLS Labs How to scale a SaaS company without chaos by fixing reporting, leadership, and operations before adding more marketing or sales. Read the notes → 47 min · March 31, 2026 Ep 15 Why Most SaaS Marketing Teams Fail (And How to Build One That Works)Theo Kanellopoulos · Head of Marketing, SalesCaptain Why do many SaaS companies invest in marketing but still struggle to turn it into predictable revenue? Read the notes → 46 min · March 16, 2026 Ep 14 How Codecademy Scaled from $10 to $50M ARR: The Playbook by Daniel LayfieldDaniel Layfield · Founder, Subscription Index How to turn subscription traffic into predictable, compounding revenue Read the notes → 42 min · March 2, 2026 Ep 13 Why Cold Email Fails for Most B2B SaaS Teams (and What Actually Works)Mina Draskovic · Account Executive, Instantly How to build a repeatable outbound engine without burning out your team or your reputation Read the notes → 46 min · February 23, 2026 Ep 12 How to Scale a SaaS Company from $0 to $10M ARRMike Korba · Co-founder & CCO, User.com How to scale a SaaS company by changing your approach at every stage of growth Read the notes → 49 min · February 2, 2026 Ep 11 How to Automate Your Revenue Engine with AI and Intent DataJérémy Grandillon · CEO & Founder, TC9 Why manual sales processes break at scale and how AI automation changes go-to-market execution Read the notes → 40 min · January 28, 2026

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Bidi Svoj Podcast Unfiltered: Money, Mistakes, Successes and FailuresAn unfiltered conversation about money, mistakes, successes and failures, with Milan Savov, founder of SmartClick and entrepreneur. Listen → StartUpClub Podcast The Challenges of a Freelancer who Became a Business OwnerFrom Freelancer to Entrepreneur: How I Built a Scalable Business? Looking to grow your freelance business or make the shift to entrepreneurship? In this episode of The Freelancers Hangout, I share the story of my transition from freelancing to founding my own business. With five years of freelancing under my belt, I made the leap Listen → Builders Podcast #7 From Freelancer to Agency Owner (Without Investors)From a freelancer in a small town to leading a 15-person SEO growth partner for B2B SaaS companies. Listen →

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