8 Companies with $100K–$500K MRR
Learn from founders and CEOs who have built businesses generating $100K–$500K in monthly recurring revenue

Kate O’Neill
Founder & CEO, KO Insights
In this interview, Kate O’Neill discusses how organizations can navigate rapid technological change through curiosity, ethical leadership, and human-centered decision-making. She explains why successful innovation requires balancing technological advancement with human needs, culture, and long-term value creation. O’Neill also shares insights on responsible AI adoption, strategic adaptability, and how leaders can build future-ready organizations that create positive outcomes for both businesses and society.

Deepak Shukla
Founder & CEO, Pearl Lemon Group
In this interview, Deepak Shukla discusses how he bootstrapped Pearl Lemon from a small startup into a global remote-first agency group. He shares how embracing discomfort, uncertainty, and ambitious challenges helped shape his entrepreneurial mindset. Shukla also explains why hiring, training, and developing exceptional people are the foundations of sustainable growth, and how building high-performance remote teams can create a significant competitive advantage.

Dhanush Radhakrishnan
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Dhanush Radhakrishnan discusses the mission behind Clone Robotics and the pursuit of human-level robotics through musculoskeletal androids powered by artificial muscles. He shares insights on biomimicry, simulation-first development, vertical integration, and building teams focused on ambitious technical goals. The conversation highlights the advantages of copying nature’s designs, the challenges of achieving human-like dexterity and movement, and how advances in AI and robotics are accelerating the path toward scalable, real-world humanoid systems.

Chetan Parikh
CEO & Founder
In this interview, Chetan Parikh discusses his transition from chemical engineering to healthcare technology and the journey of building AI-driven solutions for value-based care. He shares insights on developing trustworthy, explainable AI for risk adjustment and medical coding, the importance of combining clinical knowledge with advanced technology, and how agentic and neuro-symbolic AI can improve accuracy and efficiency. The conversation highlights innovation, customer-driven product development, continuous learning, and the future of AI-powered healthcare operations.

Jordan Welch
Founder
In this interview, Jordan Welch discusses his journey from creating gaming content to building and exiting a successful SaaS business while growing a large online audience. He shares insights on entrepreneurship, content creation, e-commerce, and leveraging free educational content as a growth engine. The conversation highlights consistency, adaptability, long-term thinking, and the value of compounding skills and audience trust to create sustainable business opportunities.

Anne Mahlum
Founder & CEO
In this interview, entrepreneur Ann Malum shares how she transformed a single fitness studio into Solidcore, one of the most successful boutique fitness brands in the United States. She discusses the lessons she learned from building a nonprofit, scaling a business to more than 100 locations, raising capital, leading through uncertainty, and achieving a nine-figure exit. Ann also reveals her philosophy on leadership, investing, wealth creation, and why community, discipline, and self-belief are the foundations of long-term success.

Maor Shlomo
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Base44 founder Maor Shlomo shares how he built an AI-powered app development platform from scratch, grew it to hundreds of thousands of users, and sold it to Wix for more than $80 million in just six months. He discusses building as a solo founder, leveraging AI to move faster than larger competitors, growing through community-driven marketing, and why speed, simplicity, and user feedback were critical to Base44's success. Maor also reveals his approach to product development, bootstrapping, and building in the era of AI.

Jim Keyes
Former CEO of 7-Eleven and Blockbuster
This conversation features Jim Keyes, who shares lessons from leading two iconic companies through major transformations and financial crises. He explains why debt—not Netflix—ultimately caused Blockbuster's downfall, reflects on growing up in poverty, discusses innovation at 7-Eleven, and shares his philosophy on learning, resilience, leadership, and overcoming fear. The discussion also covers entrepreneurship, franchising, AI, education, social media, and personal growth.