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Olivier Pailhes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
131 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

And funders club.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

yeah well essentially we are four active co-founders at the beginning we had two additional guys that actually brought in some initial funding um those two guys are very successful entrepreneurs uh one is a founder of fotolia that got sold to adobe uh and the other one uh set up a couple of businesses and they helped us just get started with some initial help and funding so

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

Well, essentially, we started with only three of those guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

I was really active here as a CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

We brought in a couple of tech guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

We couldn't find an actual CTO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

And then my two friends just financed stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

So then we split the equity there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

And they helped us well operationally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

And then after some time, we realized the three first hires we did, so two developers and one sales marketing guys, were actually really in the co-founder mode.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

So basically what we did is just say, hey guys, you should get some equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

And so they get equity at this moment that we took from our initial shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

No, I think someone is stealing a car in the street.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

Yeah, it's OK.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

So essentially we're a SaaS business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

So we charge per month and per seat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

So you would typically after a free trial of about a week, you would take a plan that can start at $12 per user up to $48 per user.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

And then let's say, let's assume you have a team of 10 people and you take the $48 plan, then you're going to pay 500 bucks a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200

2015, I mean... Last year.