The Margin is a podcast from MGI Research that explores the evolving world of business monetization. Hosted by MGI Managing Directors Andrew Dailey and Igor Stenmark, the show features candid conversations with founders, CEOs, product leaders, and industry experts at the forefront of pricing, billing, and revenue operations. Each episode dives deep into the strategies, technologies, and trends shaping how companies generate, capture, and grow revenue—from subscription and usage-based models ...
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The CPQ Podcast is your go-to source for all things Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ). Each episode features in-depth interviews with industry leaders, innovators, and practitioners who share real-world insights, strategies, and success stories. Whether you're in Sales Ops, RevOps, IT, or Product Management, this podcast helps you stay ahead in the evolving CPQ landscape — from CPQ tools and processes to digital selling, product configuration, pricing strategy, and Quote-to-Cash trends. Tune in to ...
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Unpack Pricing deconstructs the dark arts of SaaS pricing and packaging. Hosted by Scott Woody, founder and CEO of Metronome, the show features in-depth conversations with the best leaders in tech who are turning pricing into a key driver for revenue growth. Learn more: https://metronome.com/podcast/unpack-pricing
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Welcome to Electricity Consumption and Prices, your go-to podcast for understanding electricity pricing and usage in Pakistan. In each episode, we dive into the details of electricity unit prices based on different consumption rates, breaking down tariff slabs and the factors influencing costs. Whether you’re a homeowner looking to lower your monthly bills or a business owner managing energy expenses, we’ve got you covered with practical advice. From the latest updates on electricity tariffs ...
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Although subscription-based models have been a huge success, today, customers are more interested (and comfortable) in making payments based on their usage – rather than paying fixed, subscription prices. This has caused the sudden rise in the consumption-based economy, compelling businesses to move from subscription-based billing models towards consumption-based billing models to satisfy these newfound needs of customers. This podcast series will prepare you for the future pricing models ar ...
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Welcome to The Data For Subscriptions by DigitalRoute, a podcast helping you master the business of subscription and as a service. This podcast will provide you with forward-thinking strategies, and guidance on how companies are capitalizing on the growing wave of usage-based business models. Join us and industry experts as we challenge the traditional thinking surrounding data for subscriptions and as a service. Find us on your favorite podcast app to unlock the secrets of consumption-based ...
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The Owner Seat (formerly The Valisights Podcast) is where fitness & wellness owners step out of the whirlwind and into the numbers. Host Albert Ramos, Fractional CFO for fitness & wellness brands, sits down with studio owners, franchisors, and finance leaders to break down cash flow, unit economics, and the messy middle of growth. Book a call with Albert Ramos: https://calendly.com/albertramosjr-strategointel/30min
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The SaaS Podcast is the go-to resource for B2B SaaS founders and entrepreneurs who want to build, launch, and scale successful software businesses. Hosted by Omer Khan, we deliver honest, in-depth interviews with proven SaaS founders who share the specific strategies they used to generate recurring revenue and reach product-market fit. Whether you are bootstrapping a micro-SaaS, seeking venture capital funding, or scaling past $10M ARR, you will find actionable tactics here. We unpack the re ...
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To inspire technology entrepreneurs in Europe with stories and practical strategies from other successful entrepreneurs. If you are a CEO, founder, or work in sales or marketing, and your company is based in Europe or is looking to expand into Europe, then this podcast is for you.
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{Unofficial} Dive into the intricate world of HubSpot with Huble, your trusted partner in business evolution. Join Huble as we unravel the strategies that push the boundaries of what's possible with HubSpot. Every episode promises insightful discussions, innovative approaches, and illuminating case studies. Designed for marketing, sales, and technology leaders across various sectors, this podcast explores the practicalities of leveraging HubSpot for business growth. The information and conte ...
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Learn more about the market and stock analysis through CAEE™. CAEE™ is in a unique analytical framework designed to help market participants, researchers, and learners better understand Index performance and long term valuation trends. Our publications and podcast episodes feature insights derived from CAEE™ , which are for use in our educational and analytical services. Email [email protected] to request a CAEE™ based performance report on the magnificent 7 index or to request a ...
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#37: Usage-Based Pricing Is Coming for Fitness & Franchise Profit - with SpendPilot's Cat Neuman
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47:15Today on The Owner Seat, host Albert Ramos goes straight at the finance problem that’s about to wreck margins for a lot of operators in 2026: Usage-based pricing + AI spend + “I’ll check it at month-end” finance. Our guest is Catherine Neuman, Co-Founder of SpendPilot — the ambient finance layer built to stop reactive chaos and give owners real-tim…
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Salesforce Revenue Cloud, Agentforce & Usage-Based Pricing with Slalom
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29:37In this CPQ Podcast episode, Frank Sohn talks with Calvin Chow, Senior Director at Slalom Consulting, about what it really takes to move from Salesforce CPQ to Salesforce Revenue Cloud (RCA/ARM). Calvin has hands-on experience with multiple CPQ platforms — including PROS, Apttus (now Conga), Salesforce CPQ / Revenue Cloud, Zuora CPQ, and Vlocity — …
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#36: He Left a 6-Figure Job for Kettlebells, Kids & A Calling - with Don LaTorre
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43:28Today on The Owner Seat, host Albert Ramos goes inside the real transformation story most founders never talk about: the moment your health, your family, and your identity collide — and you either change… or you drift. Don LaTorre is the Founder of Layman’s Fitness — an online coaching business helping busy parents lose weight with simple, sustaina…
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#35: You Either Have Strong Unit Economics or You Don’t - with Pete Moore (Go Halo!)
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1:09:04Today on The Owner Seat, Albert Ramos sits down with Pete Moore, and they go inside the deal discipline that separates real fitness and wellness brands from the ones quietly headed for a valuation haircut. Pete Moore is the Founder & Managing Partner of Integrity Square — the advisory and investment platform that’s helped shape the modern HALO econ…
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#34: The Yard LIVE Case Study: Should You Open Location #3? Learn From Joseph Cicero First
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1:11:19Today on The Owner Seat, Albert Ramos sits down with Joseph Cicero to talk about what it really takes to scale a brick-and-mortar fitness brand without the façade — just utilization, discipline, and the emotional grind most owners never admit out loud. Joseph is the Founder of The Yard, a strength-forward training model with two high-performing stu…
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#33: How a Global Tech Exec Bet It All on StretchLab - with David Ramos
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1:10:43In this episode of The Owner Seat, Albert Ramos sits down with David Ramos — President & Owner of StretchLab First Coast and a mission-driven tech executive who’s led global platforms at Aetna/CVS, Rakuten, and high-growth startups… and then chose to build a local, family-owned wellness portfolio in Northeast Florida. David has lived both sides of …
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#32: The Truth About Franchising and Why Most Owners Burn Out— with Tanner Holmes
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1:01:02Today on The Owner Seat, Albert Ramos sits down with Tanner Holmes to go inside what multi-unit, multi-brand franchise ownership actually looks like — not the Instagram version, the real one. Tanner Holmes is a multi-unit, multi-brand franchisee, investor, and Area Developer across Illinois and Wisconsin, building a portfolio under Impact Brands LL…
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#31: Before You Buy A Franchise: Pause Studio, SWTHZ, Orangetheory & STRONG Pilates with Ali Orleski
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1:17:56In this episode of The Owner Seat, Albert Ramos sits down with Ali Orleski — Operating Partner at Momentic Studios, former VP of Franchise Development at Pause Studio, and former national operations leader helping scale Orangetheory Fitness Canada with FSO. Ali has opened 137+ boutique studios across two continents and now sits at the center of a m…
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Salesforce CPQ to ARM/RCA: Max from Prodly on DevOps & Migration
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32:14In this CPQ Podcast episode, Frank talks with Max from Prodly about the shift from Salesforce CPQ to Revenue Cloud Advanced (now Agentforce Revenue Management, ARM) and what it really takes to manage that transition successfully. They look at how Salesforce is moving customers to ARM, why this is not a simple upgrade but a separate implementation p…
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#30: Climbing Mt. Rainier Taught Me More About Private Equity Than Wall Street Did - Casey Minshew
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30:28Today on The Owner Seat, we go inside the dealmaking model that’s reshaping lower middle market M&A — with someone who’s mastered it. Casey Minshew, Managing Partner at Equity Launchpad, has acquired legacy industrial businesses like H&M Plating and Mercer Controls — and rebuilt them with bolt-ons, culture transformations, and CapEx-forward growth.…
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The Future Is Metered: Puneet Gupta on How to Succeed with Usage-Based Models
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19:46In this episode of The Margin, Andrew Dailey, Managing Director at MGI Research, speaks with Puneet Gupta, CEO and Founder of Amberflo, and a key architect behind Amazon Web Services’ early consumption billing systems. They explore what it takes to succeed with usage-based pricing, from cultural alignment and metering infrastructure to flexible bil…
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Enterprise Sales: Closing Deals in 9 Days, Not 9 Months | Briq
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49:32Bassem Hamdy closes enterprise sales deals in 9 days—not 6 months. After scaling Procore from $10M to $100M as EVP of Marketing, he built Briq to an 8-figure ARR by selling AI automation to CFOs in construction. In this episode, early-stage B2B SaaS founders will learn the enterprise sales playbook that bypasses long procurement cycles. Bassem brea…
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#29: Inside the Launch of YourFitPrint — How Gyms Are Entering the Longevity Market w/ Devon Baldino
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1:03:22Today on The Owner Seat, host Albert Ramos, Fractional CFO of Stratego, breaks down how YourFitPrint is transforming local gyms into full health hubs and why this shift will define the next decade of boutique fitness. Our guest Devon Baldino is the Executive Director of Vendor Relations & Women’s Health + Founding Board Member at YourFitPrint. She’…
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How Ignize Uses AI Pricing & CPQ to Boost Manufacturing Profits
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32:11In this CPQ Podcast episode, host Frank Sohn talks with Andreas Westling, CEO and co-founder of Ignize, about how modern AI pricing and CPQ help B2B manufacturers increase EBIT, improve price fairness, and react faster to market volatility. Drawing on more than 20 years of pricing experience, including his time as CEO of Navetti (acquired by Vendav…
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#28: The Next Revolution in Boutique Fitness: Women, Culture & The Courage to Evolve - with Beth Potter
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54:41In this episode of The Owner Seat, Albert Ramos sits down with Beth Potter — Franchise Owner of True Movement®, former VP of Sales at Walla, and former Chief Experience Officer at Studio Grow. Beth has spent over a decade inside the heart of boutique fitness — helping studios all over the world design businesses that actually scale and feel good to…
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Founder-Led Sales: How He Closed Instacart and LinkedIn | Nexla
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42:18Saket Saurabh closed Instacart by live-coding a fix during the pitch—and that "magical moment" became the foundation of his founder-led sales playbook. In this episode, early-stage B2B SaaS founders will learn how Saket closed the first 15 enterprise customers himself using a consultative founder-led sales approach. Saket breaks down exactly how to…
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#27: The Day I Died — and What It Taught Me About Building a $5M Business (Without Losing My Soul) - with Travis Pomposello
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1:15:17In this episode of Season 2 of The Owner Seat – formerly The Valisights Podcast – Fractional CFO Albert Ramos sits down with Travis Pomposello, a creative leader who’s lived multiple professional lives at the very top of media and then chose to completely redefine what success looks like. Travis is the former Chief Creative Officer at Paramount Glo…
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Next-Gen Salesforce Quote-to-Cash: RCA, RCB, and Agentforce AI
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29:52In this episode of the CPQ Podcast, Frank Sohn sits down with Suren Reddy, founder of Cloudely, for a deep dive into where Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) is heading—especially inside the Salesforce ecosystem. If you're evaluating Salesforce CPQ, or wondering what Revenue Cloud Advanced really changes, this conversation is for you. Suren breaks down Sa…
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#26: How Groe Solutions Is Redefining Fitness, Readiness, and the Future of AI - with Alan Thompson
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45:05In this episode of Season 2 of The Owner Seat – formerly The Valisights Podcast – Fractional CFO Albert Ramos sits down with Alan “The Train” Thompson, Founder & CEO of Groe Solutions, to unpack what happens when you combine Marine Corps discipline, data science, and human performance. Groe Solutions is a fast-rising B2B SaaS company working at the…
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AI SaaS Pivot: From Consulting Trap to $1M ARR | Cotera
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57:21Ibby Syed built his AI SaaS to $150K ARR—then realized he'd accidentally built a consulting business. Customers weren't logging in. They'd call with questions, get answers, and disappear. In this episode, early-stage B2B SaaS founders will learn how Cotera escaped the services trap and pivoted to an AI SaaS agent platform to hit $1M ARR. Ibby break…
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Transforming Professional Services: Dan Brown on Pragmatic AI
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40:53In this episode of The Margin, MGI Research Managing Director Igor Stenmark speaks with Dan Brown, Chief Product Officer at Celonis, about the true impact of generative AI on professional services. Is it an existential threat, or a powerful accelerant? Drawing on experience at Microsoft and leading PSA vendors, Dan unpacks where GenAI delivers real…
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#25: The Fitness Rollup Nobody Saw Coming: How SupaFitGrow Is Building an AI Empire - with Benji Donhardt
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51:17In this episode of Season 2 of The Owner Seat – formerly The Valisights Podcast – Fractional CFO Albert Ramos sits down with Benji Donhardt, Co-Founder & CEO of SupaFitGrow, to talk about what happens when you combine M&A, AI, and an operator’s mindset to rewrite the rules for fitness growth. SupaFitGrow is building one of the most aggressive roll-…
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Inside the CPQ Sales Report: A Practical Guide for CPQ Buyers, Vendors & SIs
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15:31Evaluating Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solutions and drowning in buzzwords, vendor decks, and generic analyst reports? In this solo episode of the CPQ Podcast, Frank walks you through something he has been building for exactly that problem: the CPQ Sales Report from Novus CPQ. This is not a sales pitch. Think of this episode as a reference guide yo…
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Freemium SaaS: From $8/Month to 7-Figure ARR | Polly
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57:26Bilal Aijazi built a freemium SaaS to millions of monthly active users—but struggled to convert free users to paid. Then he discovered that most users would never pay, and the real buyers were hiding in plain sight. In this episode, early-stage B2B SaaS founders will learn the freemium SaaS playbook that took Polly from $8/month to 7-figure ARR. Bi…
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Why AI Demands a New Approach to Financial Systems of Record
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49:25In this episode of Unpack Pricing, Scott Woody, co-founder and CEO of Metronome, talks with Nicolas Kopp, CEO of AI-native ERP platform Rillet. Nicolas discusses the strategic imperative for reimagining enterprise systems in the AI era. The conversation explores how legacy ERPs have become fragmented data repositories rather than sources of truth, …
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#24: Your Tech Stack Is Strangling You — How To Turns AI Agents into Profit - with Ryan Seifert
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From SAP to Salesforce Revenue Cloud: AI, CPQ, and the "Death of Middleware"
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32:21In this episode, Frank Sohn talks with Hiren Shah, founder of B2B-Matrix, about how small and mid-sized manufacturers and distributors are modernizing their sales processes through AI-driven CPQ, CRM, and ERP integration. Hiren, a former SAP America consultant turned Salesforce expert, shares his perspective on the future of Configure-Price-Quote (…
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Bootstrapped SaaS to 8-Figure Exit (No VC, No Problem) | GoProposal
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1:16:40James Ashford built a bootstrapped SaaS for £4,000 on WordPress and sold it to Sage for 8 figures—without raising a single dollar of outside funding. In this episode, early-stage B2B SaaS founders will learn the bootstrapped SaaS playbook that beat competitors with $75M in funding. James breaks down exactly how to build a sellable asset from day on…
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Redefining Revenue: Youssef Yaghmour on the Six Pillars of Intelligent Monetization
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38:16In this episode of The Margin, MGI Research Managing Director Igor Stenmark sits down with Youssef Yaghmour, CEO and Founder of BluLogix, to explore the evolving challenges of monetization for multi-channel enterprises. They discuss the limitations of ERP systems, the role of AI in revenue prediction, and BluLogix’s six pillars of intelligent reven…
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#23: From WeWork to Preql: Why Finance Has a Logic Problem - with Leah Weiss
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1:41:16In this episode of The Valisights Podcast, host Albert Ramos sits down with Leah Weiss, Co-Founder & CEO of Preql and Co-Founder of Data Culture, to tackle one of the most overlooked challenges in AI-driven finance — why good AI still fails when the data logic underneath is broken. Leah’s background bridges enterprise scale and startup speed — from…
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