50 Podcasts Every SaaS Founder Should Check Out
We’ve gathered some of the best podcasts for SaaS founders and people interested in launching a SaaS business - check out the list here! And you can find the winners of our SaaS Podcast Awards here!
🏆 The Nominees 🏆
The following podcasts were nominated for top prizes as a part of the awards:
The Art of Product Podcast
Hosted by Ben Orenstein + Derrick Reimer
The Art of Product is a podcast chronicling the journeys of two entrepreneurs building software companies.
Bold Business Podcast
Hosted by Jess Dewell
The Voice of Bold Business Radio talks about skills to ask better questions, solve problems and take action. The result is effectively handling: tough situations; changing culture; adding new products or markets; setting goals; reviewing people; evaluating business; setting priorities; building strategy; and more.
Bootstrapped Web
Hosted by Jordan Gal + Brian Casel
Bootstrapped Web is for entrepreneurs bootstrapping their startups, who believe that the best way to get to where we're going is to learn by doing. Conversations, case studies, and interviews with entrepreneurs who are building profitable businesses online. Let's do this.
Build Your SaaS
Hosted by Justin Jackson + Jon Buda
Thousands of entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and product people have tried to capture some of that success by launching their own web apps. But now, there is way more competition, and many categories have become saturated.
Indie Hackers
Hosted by Courtland Allen
Courtland Allen interviews the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to discover new trends, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
Code Story
Hosted by Noah Labhart
In a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created. We interview tech visionaries, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry, and build (and lead) a team that has your back.
Software Social Podcast
Hosted by Michele Hansen + Colleen Schnettler
Two bootstrapped software founders -- one transitioning from freelancing, and one with an established business -- invite you to join their weekly chats about their businesses.
The SaaS Podcast
Hosted by Omer Khan
The SaaS Podcast - In-depth interviews with proven entrepreneurs and startup founders. Actionable insights to help you build, launch and grow your SaaS business
SaaS-Story In the Making
Hosted by Matt Wolach
Each week we talk with those who have succeeded and inspired in the world of software. How they did it, what advice they have, and what's coming in the future with new innovation.
Prolific Podcasters
With over 1K episodes on each of their feeds, these shows represent some of the most prolific and insightful podcasts out there for founders.
.Net Rocks!
Hosted by Carl Franklin + Richard Campbell
.NET Rocks! is an Internet Audio Talk Show for Microsoft .NET Developers.
Mixergy
Hosted by Andrew Werner
Mixergy is a place where successful people teach ambitious upstarts. The people who speak on this podcast are businesspeople who take some time out of their schedules to help teach others what they learned from their own experiences. They are people like Jimmy Wales who taught us how he got the world to help him make Wikipedia into a world-changing site. And people like Gregg Spiridellis who told us how it felt to watch his company, JibJab, get reduced to almost nothing, and taught us how he turned his business around.
Nathan Latka's The Top
Hosted by Nathan Latka
What if you knew data behind the fastest growing SaaS companies today? Each morning join Nathan Latka as he spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders. You'll learn how SaaS CEO's launched their startup and grew it into a real SaaS business. SaaS Founders range from bootstrapped to funded, MVP to 10,000 customers, pre revenue to pre IPO.
This Week In Startups
Hosted by Jason Calcanis
Jason Calacanis and a rotating group of guest experts bring you this weekly take on the best, worst, most outrageous and interesting stories from the world of Web companies. Calacanis, a podcasting pioneer, gives you an insider's look at what's happening in the tech industry with his trademark blunt style and good humor. Looking to start your own company? Need strategies for improving your business or motivating your team? Just want to catch up on what's happening in Silicon Valley and beyond? Your journey begins here.
Honorable Mentions
Over 50 different shows were nominated across the four categories for the awards. Here are ALL of the shows that were nominated so that you can explore new shows that might not be on your radar… yet.
The Disqualified Shows
Given the whole conflict of interest bit, we pulled our own shows out of the running for the SaaS Podcast Awards, but as one of the longest running shows in bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped SaaS, be sure to subscribe to these shows!
MicroConf On Air
Hosted by Rob Walling
Featuring two episodes per week, we take a look back at the archives from MicroConf's past and publish the audio of some of the best talks delivered from the MC stage and host a weekly live streamed conversation with founders and geniuses supporting the non-VC track startup community.
Startups for the Rest of Us
Hosted by Rob Walling
The longest running (and most popular) podcast for non-venture track startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.
TinySeed Tales
Hosted by Rob Walling
A highly-produced podcast where each season focuses on the struggles, victories and failures of a startup founder. Recorded over 6-9 months, we are able to weave a narrative that's impossible to achieve with your standard interview format, while maintain the grit and sometimes harsh realities of growing a startup.
Zen Founder Podcast
Hosted by Dr. Sherry Walling
I want to help entrepreneurs talk about, think about, and practice better mental health.That means thoughtful work practices, thriving relationships, and a healthy body and mind. It’s a combination of interviews with successful entrepreneurs, like Basecamp’s founder Jason Fried, conversations with experts, like psychiatrist and researcher Michael Freeman, and honest reflections on entrepreneur life.
