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Guillaume Moubeche

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
552 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Now I'm not so much in the operational anymore. This is kind of actually you come at a moment where this is a transition phase for me, but yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Now I'm not so much in the operational anymore. This is kind of actually you come at a moment where this is a transition phase for me, but yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

I think it's difficult to predict because your mistakes are like a light that only light your own path. I don't know if this is the quote, but you know what I mean. It's like your learnings are your own. So sometimes you just got to go through the mistakes and having someone else give you insights on something might not really like you have to choose. You have to pick your battles.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

I think it's difficult to predict because your mistakes are like a light that only light your own path. I don't know if this is the quote, but you know what I mean. It's like your learnings are your own. So sometimes you just got to go through the mistakes and having someone else give you insights on something might not really like you have to choose. You have to pick your battles.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

I think it's difficult to predict because your mistakes are like a light that only light your own path. I don't know if this is the quote, but you know what I mean. It's like your learnings are your own. So sometimes you just got to go through the mistakes and having someone else give you insights on something might not really like you have to choose. You have to pick your battles.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

So for us, what we believe was like it's not a personal issue, it's a product issue, and we have a strong roadmap to fix it. So let's go, let's iterate. And then we realized that it wasn't the case, you know.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

So for us, what we believe was like it's not a personal issue, it's a product issue, and we have a strong roadmap to fix it. So let's go, let's iterate. And then we realized that it wasn't the case, you know.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

So for us, what we believe was like it's not a personal issue, it's a product issue, and we have a strong roadmap to fix it. So let's go, let's iterate. And then we realized that it wasn't the case, you know.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Yeah. So the company was worth $150 million. My two co-founders left and we each took like $10 million. So now I own about like 70% of the business. I cashed out $10 million personally. And I'm like the solo founder left since around like four years now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Yeah. So the company was worth $150 million. My two co-founders left and we each took like $10 million. So now I own about like 70% of the business. I cashed out $10 million personally. And I'm like the solo founder left since around like four years now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Yeah. So the company was worth $150 million. My two co-founders left and we each took like $10 million. So now I own about like 70% of the business. I cashed out $10 million personally. And I'm like the solo founder left since around like four years now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Yeah, it's crazy, to be honest. I was feeling so grateful about it because for me, money, it has always been like a stress, like lacking of money and this kind of thing. The fear of lacking of money is something I realized that will never go away.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Yeah, it's crazy, to be honest. I was feeling so grateful about it because for me, money, it has always been like a stress, like lacking of money and this kind of thing. The fear of lacking of money is something I realized that will never go away.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Yeah, it's crazy, to be honest. I was feeling so grateful about it because for me, money, it has always been like a stress, like lacking of money and this kind of thing. The fear of lacking of money is something I realized that will never go away.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Uh, just because it's so deep, you know, in the, into like, uh, how I rise raised, like looking at every, every item price in the supermarket, uh, not going on holiday with my parents, like these kinds of things. But what I realized is like, uh, money can buy like freedom and freedom is what I like the most.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Uh, just because it's so deep, you know, in the, into like, uh, how I rise raised, like looking at every, every item price in the supermarket, uh, not going on holiday with my parents, like these kinds of things. But what I realized is like, uh, money can buy like freedom and freedom is what I like the most.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Uh, just because it's so deep, you know, in the, into like, uh, how I rise raised, like looking at every, every item price in the supermarket, uh, not going on holiday with my parents, like these kinds of things. But what I realized is like, uh, money can buy like freedom and freedom is what I like the most.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

So I'm not someone, you know, who spends like a crazy amount of monies on Lamborghini, etc. Like I love the simple things. Like I love to go hiking with a tent on holiday. Like this is my kind of vibe. But having the freedom to do whatever I want, go whenever, wherever I want, etc. This is like priceless.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

So I'm not someone, you know, who spends like a crazy amount of monies on Lamborghini, etc. Like I love the simple things. Like I love to go hiking with a tent on holiday. Like this is my kind of vibe. But having the freedom to do whatever I want, go whenever, wherever I want, etc. This is like priceless.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

So I'm not someone, you know, who spends like a crazy amount of monies on Lamborghini, etc. Like I love the simple things. Like I love to go hiking with a tent on holiday. Like this is my kind of vibe. But having the freedom to do whatever I want, go whenever, wherever I want, etc. This is like priceless.