Fabien Pinckaers
48 statements across 1 episodes · 12 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2025 by Fabien Pinckaers · across every show →
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Feb 12, 2025
Feb 12, 2025 bullish
In slow markets like ERPs, superior product always beats marketing
“You can save time with marketing, you can save two or three years, you can grow the company, but at some point you cannot, the product matters. I am on a market that is very slow, you know, ERPs are very slow, LCPs is still shitty after two years, Microsoft Dy…”
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Doubts about an employee signal it is already too late
“I keep saying to myself, when there is a doubt, there is no doubt. You know, we are entrepreneurs, and as an entrepreneur, we are always optimistic. We want things to make it work, we think it's gonna be better, and if, even if it doesn't work with someone, we…”
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Office expansion succeeds on leadership quality, not location
“For me, the way we operate is that the key is not so much about the country or the city, the key is to find the right director. I mean, you can have the best location, you go in San Francisco or Silicon Valley, and you have an average director, it won't work.”
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At 10 to 100 employees, middle managers define company culture
“10 to 100 is the time where your job change. As a founder, you start to have middle managers, and so the culture is not you anymore. It's the middle manager and the way they behave with the people. So you spend way more time communicating to ensure that the cu…”
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Odoo bans recurring meetings to avoid traditional managers
“I forbid the recurring meeting at the company. They can do meetings. But on the job, or for specific tasks, or trainings, but not recurring meeting. I mean, recurring meeting is a way to manage people, and we try to avoid managers. We want team leaders that wo…”
Feb 12, 2025 bullish
Reinvesting personal funds in Odoo because it reliably returns 50% yearly
“I still if I have money, I don't have a lot of money in my bank account, but if I have money, I will buy or do shares. Even more. I mean, it's the best investment I can do, so. It's purely financial. I don't know another company that can give me 50% year after…”
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Odoo recruits within five days using single-meeting automated process
“And our process is extremely fast. So it's one meeting and we decide right away. So usually we recruit within five days and everything is automated. So you apply online, you can book your meeting with the interviewer right away from his, into his calendar. The…”
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Hiring well-rounded candidates yields average talent
“If you look for people that are perfect in everything, you will get people that are average in everything. I mean, if you want people who speak multiple languages, who is a good developer, who is a good communicator, Probably it's gonna be average. So if you d…”
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Switching Odoo to open core allowed a 10x dev team expansion
“When I decided to switch to an open core business model and say, it's not only, it's not anymore 100% open source, it's only 80% open source and 20% for free. I could 10 times the development team, so now I'm contributing way more to open source than before.”
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Feb 12, 2025 bearish
Odoo will displace SAP within 10 to 20 years
“First, I think it's just a matter of time. I think I don't know how they can survive to what's coming in from them. We have so much advance, years in our head, we are stealing so much clients to them, that it's just a matter of time for me. But it's gonna take…”
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Feb 12, 2025 positive
Sales efficiency doubles after three to five years of experience
“For every job, like, take a salesperson. His first two years, he will sell X. When he has three, four, five years experience, he will sell double. If you keep them only three years, you will have way less efficiency than if you keep them five, six, seven years…”
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Pinckaers' student art marketplace sold more items monthly than eBay Belgium
“Yeah, I was selling more objects than eBay.be. So, 15,000 art per month at the time. I was working with auction houses, antique dealers, art market, art place. And I started to be big, one of the biggest of Belgium actually.”
Feb 12, 2025 bullish
Management software will commoditize into standardized horizontal tools across industries
“And I think as part of, for my vision is to commoditize the management software market. When you see that as a commoditization, I think everybody will use the same CRM, the same accounting, the same website builder. It doesn't have to be dedicated to one indus…”
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Software maturity makes product quality matter more than vertical customization
“So we think, I think that as these applications get mature pretty much all the CRM, they look the same today. So it's not so much about CRM for that business or that business, they are the same. So it's more about the quality of your product now rather than ho…”
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Scaling is easier by training young talent than hiring VPs
“I think it's easier to scale when you don't need to get the top people. I mean, you just recruit young people, a lot of them, and train them and make them evolve. It's easier than always looking at the best VP of X, the best managers of X.”
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Management layers create a constant dark force toward company complexity
“When you start to have managers and managers of managers and team leaders, they all want to do something. They all have ideas and the complexity is that there is like a dark force that push everyone to complexify the company. And to keep your company simple, y…”
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