E37: SAAS Economics with Michael Alt
SAAS Operators29 Joulu 2025

E37: SAAS Economics with Michael Alt

In this episode of the SAAS Operators Podcast, we sat down with Michael Alt to talk about the economics of building and running software. We talk about usage based pricing for ecommerce SAAS, why it feels great in November and awful in February, and how order volume, support load, and infra change your cost to serve each customer. Michael explains what happens when your COGS is mostly cloud and AI, why balance sheet funded startups can ignore gross margin for years, and why bootstrapped teams do not have that luxury.


We talk about the quiet tax of bad decisions, how indexes, data models, and reporting layers can swing profitability, and why most brands are still planning nine figure supply chains in Google Sheets. The conversation shifts into copycats, why you should study the people copying you, and how to use bigger players as a very expensive R&D lab. Michael describes how new platforms could feasibly beat Shopify and WordPress, the case for focused vertical products, and how to build in a world where a customer comment in Slack can turn into a ticket, a code change, and a pull request without a meeting.

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E52: How AI Replaces People with Chase Mohseni from Creative OS

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E50: The Future of Software Businesses with Maxx Blank from Triple Whale

E50: The Future of Software Businesses with Maxx Blank from Triple Whale

This podcast features an in-depth conversation with Maxx Blank, one of the co-founders of Triple Whale. Maxx shares the company's journey from a simple ecommerce dashboard that Maxx wanted for his own...

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E49: How To Build An App That’s Worth Buying with Varun Kundra

E49: How To Build An App That’s Worth Buying with Varun Kundra

In this episode of the SaaS Operators Podcast, Varun Kundra , co-founder of AfterSell, talks about how the business was built around post-purchase upsells on Shopify. The core product sits in the wind...

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E48: From Service to SaaS with Aaron Schwartz & Daniel Brady

E48: From Service to SaaS with Aaron Schwartz & Daniel Brady

In this episode Aaron Schwartz and Daniel Brady, co-founders of Orita, joined us and we talked about how they built an ML-powered audience intelligence product for e-commerce brands. Orita tells you w...

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E47: Building The World’s First AI Creative Strategist with Alex Cooper & Maneesh Apte

E47: Building The World’s First AI Creative Strategist with Alex Cooper & Maneesh Apte

In this episode Alex Cooper and Maneesh Apte, two of the co-founders of Parker, joined us to talk about building an AI creative strategist that lives inside your Slack channel. Parker feels like a sen...

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E46: Acquiring Marketing SaaS & Agencies with Chase Chappell

E46: Acquiring Marketing SaaS & Agencies with Chase Chappell

In this episode Chase Chappell, the founder of Sirge, Success AI, Ads Mastery and Partner at DOE Media, joins us to talk about building a vertically integrated e-commerce operation, acquiring marketin...

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E45: Swiping Left on Ads Like Tinder with John Gargiulo

E45: Swiping Left on Ads Like Tinder with John Gargiulo

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E44: 3,500 Customers and Zero Outbound with Shaan Arora

E44: 3,500 Customers and Zero Outbound with Shaan Arora

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