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Olivier Simonis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
260 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Because I mean, it's quite a challenge these days to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

keep the team satisfied you have all these people that are super bored of staying at home and yeah we used to be a company that was very strong on atmosphere and events at the office and of course all these activities have been completely stopped so it's kind of challenging to keep

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

people with the same level of motivation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

And so, yeah, our focus is really there at the moment rather than looking at a series B or a potential exit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

I mean, that might of course come later on, but we are really not proactively looking for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

And are you profitable today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Yes, we are breakeven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Profitable, I wouldn't say, but we are breakeven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

So it means we have no pressure to raise money or to find a financial solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

You talk about team and culture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

How many folks are on your team today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Today, it's a bit less than 80 people in the company spread across four offices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

So our main office is in Brussels, in Belgium, and then we have sales and marketing offices in Madrid, in Paris, and in Amsterdam.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

How many engineers of the 78?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

It's about half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Half are working on the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

If you take the product and R&D team, including the DevOps, it's about half of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

The rest being sales, marketing, and G&A.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

How many of the sales folks actually carry a quota?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Well, it's actually most of them, except we have two SDRs, which are a bit of a different approach, but all the rest, they carry quotas, yes.