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Nicolas Vandenberghe

21 statements across 4 episodes · 11 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2022 by Nicolas Vandenberghe · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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May 4, 2022 positive
Opinion
Nicolas Vandenberghe: Nations should only exist for soccer tournaments and global taxes
“So my view is that at some stage we should have global taxes you know, we should have no, we should have nation for soccer tournament, that's cool, but not for anything else, not for fight and all that.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 35:04 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022
Disclosure
Nicolas Vandenberghe sold his Hamptons house and BMW to fund Chili Piper
“We sold the house. We sold the BMW. We put all the money in the company.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 16:53 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Chili Piper raised $33M and sold $33M in secondary to Tiger Global
“We did a secondary with Tiger Global. We sold thirty-three million. So we raised thirty-three million, and we also sold thirty-three million.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 1:48 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vandenberghe: Social Capital offered Chili Piper $2M on $20M pre in 2018
“In 2019 No, 18, social capital came to us and say we, they understood, they said we're lucky, and they gave us a term sheet to put two million on twenty million prix.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 23:52 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022
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Nicolas Vandenberghe lost a $42M payday when a $60M acquisition collapsed
“Six zero, and I have 72% of the company So I'm about to clear forty-two million, and, ah, and the deal collapsed, and the dot bomb happened, and I had to shut down the company. Actually, I did a deal with Microsoft, but I laid off 65 people, ah, and.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 4:11 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022
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Nicolas Vandenberghe founded and failed a G2 competitor in 2007
“So, so I played around, and actually, in 2007, I started a company to do exactly what G two does, and I failed.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 5:07 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 bullish
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Chili Piper's ARR grew from $7M to $16M following Tiger Global investment
“Then the company with the money grows faster, as you can tell, and we go from seven to 16, so we now more than doubling.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 29:25 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022
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Nicolas Vandenberghe's first startup reached $11M revenue and received a $50M offer
“And we did six millions our first year, eleven million a second year. And then we got an offer for fifty million and John Scully.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 3:30 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Chili Piper closed a $27M secondary share sale at a $625M valuation
“Yeah, so we did six 25, which was the highest of the market. We, that was in the end, well, at five hundred million with ten million worth of sale, at six 25 with twenty-seven million, so twenty-seven million secondary, and that's what happened.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 30:24 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 positive
Insight
Structure customer-funded software dev as prepayments to retain intellectual property
“You can't do a service. The fee has to be a prepayment against software because otherwise they own the IP, right? If you do a service business, you do develop for them and they own the IP. So the, it's very important if you ever do something like that, where y…”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 12:12 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 bullish
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Two Ukrainian engineers made $1.6M each for one month of work
“We gave them shares. A 100,000 shares each. And as I said, the secondary is 16 dollars a share. So each of them, that pair for the months was 1.6 million each.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 17:36 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
May 4, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vandenberghe: Base10 offered Chili Piper $15M on $55M pre at 12x ARR
“So that deal was June 20, 20. It was based then. And they offered 15 on 55 pre. 28 years. So we're doing around four plus million. So it's, it was around 12 X. There was a number, 12 X run rate.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 26:19 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
Oct 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chili Piper employee satisfaction dropped from 92% to 75% following layoffs
“We were at 92% before Morocco. We redid it in January, we were at 75%.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 15:40 Crazy years: from $60M in secondaries to layoffs & back to cash positive
Oct 6, 2023 positive
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Chili Piper transitioned to cash flow positive in just four months
“Yeah, so so November, December, January, February.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 16:31 Crazy years: from $60M in secondaries to layoffs & back to cash positive
Oct 6, 2023 bullish
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Vandenberghe says 42 VCs reached out to lead Chili Piper's Series C
“I had 42, that's the number, VCs who had reached out to me to say, we want to do your C-Round, we want to do your C-Round”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 8:57 Crazy years: from $60M in secondaries to layoffs & back to cash positive
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chili Piper achieved cash flow positivity to avoid a down round
“We didn't want to go at a lower valuation, so we said we cut costs, we go cash positive. That's what we do. So that's what we've done.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 11:02 Crazy years: from $60M in secondaries to layoffs & back to cash positive
Jan 2, 2024
Disclosure
Chili Piper counts 2,000 paying customers
“2000.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 12:58 How to Double Your Company From $16m to $30m Revenue Using Multiple Product Lines with Chilipiper CEO
Jan 2, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chili Piper achieves positive cash flow without raising new capital
“No, we switched to being cash positive.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 2:30 How to Double Your Company From $16m to $30m Revenue Using Multiple Product Lines with Chilipiper CEO
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chili Piper cut headcount from 225 to 150 employees
“Two, we went from two 25 to one 50.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 3:53 How to Double Your Company From $16m to $30m Revenue Using Multiple Product Lines with Chilipiper CEO
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chili Piper reaches $30M ARR run rate
“We're getting thirty million run, right?”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 2:12 How to Double Your Company From $16m to $30m Revenue Using Multiple Product Lines with Chilipiper CEO
Dec 17, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chili Piper doubled ACV and halved CAC over the past year
“Chili Piper's doubled their ACV cut their customer acquisition costs in half, and also dramatically increased revenue per employee, up to 200,000 dollars per employee, all over the course of the last year.”
Sam Jacobs Dec 17, 2024 ▶ 8:21 Pavilion Breaks $10m Revenue using New Growth Playbook, CEO Sam Jacobs
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