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.

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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/

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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.

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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/

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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 #2 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Frank Lämmer, co-founder of fortrabbit, a managed, Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud hosting provider specifically for PHP developers.

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0:05 — Introduction and Background

1:37 — From Graffiti Artist to Tech Entrepreneur

3:03 — Starting fortrabbit and Early Days

5:49 — Developer-Focused Product Strategy

8:00 — Brand Voice and Marketing Approach

10:54 — Co-Founder Struggles and Departures

14:11 — Market Challenges and Competition

23:47 — Hiring Strategy and Team Building

25:20 — Remote Work and International Hiring

36:20 — Bootstrap vs VC Funding Philosophy

44:59 — Lifestyle Entrepreneurship and Future Plans

Frank - https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklaemmer/

fortrabbit - https://www.fortrabbit.com/