Matheus Riolfi: Growing a Venture-Backed Startup

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Founder Views - SaaS, Business, and Beyond

Kosta Panagoulias

99 episodes

4 hours ago

Founder Views is a podcast for SaaS builders who want real conversations, not recycled playbooks. Hosted by Kosta Panagoulias, a 2x SaaS founder, the show features in-the-trenches conversations with SaaS CEOs, operators, and experts. Each episode digs into the decisions, strategies, wins, and struggles that shape real companies - practical insights from people actively building, not theorizing. While the core focus is SaaS growth, leadership, and execution, the podcast also leaves room for broader discussions that help founders think better - whether that’s economics, technology, markets, or other big-picture business topics. If you want raw, easy-to-follow conversations with people who've actually built something, you’ll feel right at home.

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Matheus Riolfi: Growing a Venture-Backed Startup

Founder Views - SaaS, Business, and Beyond

52 minutes

2 years ago

Matheus Riolfi: Growing a Venture-Backed Startup

➡️ The most important lessons from growing and selling a bootstrapped SaaS company, from a non-technical entrepreneur: https://www.hardknocksaas.com/ (use HUSTLE40 for 40% off).

Matheus Riolfi is the founder and CEO of tint.ai, a company that provides embeddable insurance to tech platforms and marketplaces.

Unlike most founders I speak to that are bootstrapped - Matheus followed a different journey. Launching in 2018, Matheus led his company through YC (Y Combinator), and most recently closed a $25 million Series A round.

We cover several topics, including:

- Why he chose to get funding, rather than bootstrap
- How Tint maintains a positive workplace culture as a fully remote team
- How his role as CEO continues to evolve
- The most important skills a new founder should possess
- Much more

Follow Matheus Riolfi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mriolfi/
Check out Tint: https://www.tint.ai/