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Laurent Le Moal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
246 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Well, high burn rate is we are talking, you know, a couple of hundred millions a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Yes, I think so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

And I think the reality is, you know, then you have the entrepreneurs who is constantly fundraising instead of building the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

I think the market is changing now in high growth markets, for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

But it's still, you know, one of these very early days that I remember for sure in Europe that I can find in some of these markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So for me, the lessons are still there, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Oh, boys, I can't remember that one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

It must have been a couple million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Well, actually, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

The website is still up because we sold actually the software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

That's what we sold to a headhunting company in Italy and it's still up and running.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

For how much?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Just to cover the cost, really, of the severance package.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

I also paid for my MBA after that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

It's like, you know, paid vacation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Yeah, McKinsey was at the very beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

McKinsey is always the continuation of business school, you know, just...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

so that you learn how to do a slide and stuff like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So, yeah, after that, really, the MBA for me was first the opportunity to be in London, meet a lot of people, work on different projects, actually.