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
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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01
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.
04
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 10
Why Outbound Still Works for B2B SaaS (And How Most Teams Get It Wrong)Bill Stathopoulos · Founder & CEO, SalesCaptain
Why most founders give up on outbound too early and what they misunderstand about failure
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Ep 9
How B2B SaaS Companies Can Unlock 10% More Revenue with the Right Pricing StructureKrzysztof Szyszkiewicz · Partner & Co-Founder, Valueships
How B2B SaaS leaders can turn pricing into a strategic growth engine
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Ep 8
How Freemius Became a Business-in-a-Box for Software CreatorsVova Feldman · Founder & CEO, Freemius
Why most developers fail to turn code into a real business and what they must learn before scaling
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Ep 7
The Hidden Cost of Bad AI ImplementationKazik Pietka · Managing Partner, Heveli
Why CEOs still don’t fully trust AI and what they need to see before they do
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Ep 6
The Growth Framework Behind HeyReach’s $8M ARR SuccessVukasin Vukosavljević · CMO, HeyReach
What does it take to build an $8M ARR company in just over two years?
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Ep 5
The Transition from IBM and Microsoft to Hyper-Growth SaaSAsif Muhammad · CMO, Aico
What does it take to transition from enterprise powerhouses like Microsoft and IBM to a fast-moving SaaS environment?
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- A channel you killed, and why
- A strategy that quietly stopped working
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