Guillaume Moubache

The CEO of Lemlist, Guillaume Mubes, recently turned down a $30 million deal that a private equity firm was offering into his company.

$15 million of it was going to be secondary, meaning each of the three founders could take $5 million each.

The other $15 million was going to go directly into the business at a $70 million pre-money valuation, $85 million post-money valuation.

The company just broke the

five and a half million bucks of actually $6 million in annual recurring revenue.

Now, Guillaume and the founders said no.

The question is why?

We do the exclusive story in the new issue of Latcom Magazine, which you can get right now at nathanlattcom.com forward slash magazine.

But for today's podcast episode, I thought it'd be interesting to go back and listen to how Guillaume talked about the business seven months ago.

Enjoy.

Enjoy.

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