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Gilles Domartini

8 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2023 by Gilles Domartini · across every show →

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Jul 27, 2023 negative
Disclosure
A VC investor demanded an exit one year after funding Cleeng
“One of the investors, the one that came in actually in 18 we are facing a few challenges in in 19, and they tell us, look guys we'd like to do an exit at the time where we started to spend like crazy.”
Gilles Domartini Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 3:48 From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR / $2M profit within 3 years
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Cleeng founders and family retained 50% equity despite VC rounds
“I'm still owning 22% of the organization. With the rest of the founders and the friends and family, we were close to 50%, and we are close to 50% today.”
Gilles Domartini Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 8:00 From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR / $2M profit within 3 years
Jul 27, 2023 negative
Insight
Relying on investors creates the wrong organizational behavior
“I don't want anymore to rely on investors because it creates the wrong behavior as you build your organization.”
Gilles Domartini Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 19:10 From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR / $2M profit within 3 years
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cleeng received a €14M acquisition offer during a 2019 cash crisis
“Actually, we have an offer on the table to acquire the company for fourteen million euros.”
Gilles Domartini Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 7:17 From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR / $2M profit within 3 years
Jun 20, 2024
Insight
Domartini: Software is easy to stretch across verticals, but sales is hard
“It's easy to stretch a software but actually it's hard to stretch the sales and to stretch the experience and just, and the marketing and this type of activities.”
Gilles Domartini Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 2:55 Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
Jun 20, 2024 negative
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Domartini: Over-indexing on customer centricity risks turning SaaS companies into system integrators
“By becoming customer centric, we are moving, to my liking at least, way too much as a solution integrator, system integrator type of company.”
Gilles Domartini Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 9:10 Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
Jun 20, 2024
Insight
Domartini: Meeting bloat signals unclear roles and a need to reorganize
“So once you get to that stage, it's a sign you need to reorganize. If the meeting goes too big, it's not because, okay, people just want to have more people in the meeting, it's because the roles and responsibilities aren't clear.”
Gilles Domartini Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 15:37 Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
Jun 20, 2024 negative
Insight
Domartini: Bureaucracy starts slowing down decisions at just 100 employees
“So very important to I think resist the temptation of a form of bureaucratic model as you grow, and again, hundred employees, not like Microsoft size, but it already starts to wait on, on our capacity to decide effectively.”
Gilles Domartini Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 19:54 Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
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