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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?

We were both reaching 40s when we decided to step out of our employee job to start the entrepreneur adventure a bit on the side.

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

At 40.

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

And yeah, my co-founder, Serge, used to be the CTO.

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

And I mean, he has stepped down as CTO.

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

And we have a great CTO who replaced him about a year and a half ago.

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

So he's still working in the company, but as a chief innovation officer.

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

So we're both founders.

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

We still own the majority of the shares.

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

And now the

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

Of course, the investors that have joined us three years ago, they own the rest.

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

And also the team owns Warren.

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

So we decided two years ago that we wanted to have an employee stock option plan, not limited to a few

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

key people, but open to the whole company.

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

So we have now about 90 people of the employees of the company that own warrants of the company, and they will be able to exercise these warrants to have shares.

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

On a fully exercised and fully diluted basis, how large is the employee option pool?

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

Uh, we, we, we made it, uh, at 10% of, uh, the cap table.

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

Um, yeah, then it was right.

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

It was a bit diluted.

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

No, I think in total, it's a, it's about 7.5%.

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

Um, and then investors own something between pot 10 and 20%.