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Claudio Erba

Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Docebo. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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After developing a platform to share materials with students at the University of Florence, Erba founded Docebo in 2005 and took it public on the TSX and NASDAQ. He served as CEO for nearly two decades before becoming Chief Innovation Officer in 2024.

1shows
1appearances
10statements
6resolved
3supported
1contradicted
50%fully supported

Everything Claudio Erba said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Erba: Customer success teams should never carry sales or upsell quotas
“So my lesson is don't let, ah, customer success upsell or having sales quota. They need to focus on making customer happy.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 12:54 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
Erba: Founders should hire customer support teams before accelerating growth
“And this is an advice that I'm giving to other entrepreneurs. Hire first, grow after.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 10:20 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Erba: Docebo's average annual contract value is slightly below $20,000
“It's somewhere between 10 and 30. It's slightly below 20 if we needed to make the average.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 4:21 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Erba: 93% of Docebo's revenue is generated outside Italy
“And then we raised capital, we changed business model, and then we started doubling the revenues from 2012 to today with a huge growth and with 93% of the business outside Outside, Italy, 60% in North America.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 5:12 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Erba: Docebo has raised around $10 million in working capital
“Working capital, around ten million.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 5:31 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Docebo serves 1,400 mid-enterprise customers and doubled revenue since 2014
“As of today, we have 1400 enterprise customer, mid-enterprise customers, and in term of revenues, we have doubled since 2014.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 6:02 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Docebo achieved over 75% year-over-year revenue growth
“We have added more than 75% this year. Compared to the previous year.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 8:13 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Docebo reports 97% annual net revenue retention
“Actually, we have 97% net retention.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 9:16 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Erba: Docebo is not yet break-even and not fundraising
“We are not yet on a break even, but as of today, we are not actively looking.”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 13:09 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Erba: Docebo originated as an open-source slide-download tool for students
“Docebo was born as a software because my students needed something to download my PowerPoint presentation after the lesson. So with Fabio, that is my actual partner and CTO we created these small application that was released originally under, you know, open s…”
Claudio Erba Mar 16, 2019 ▶ 2:27 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Claudio's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

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