Sébastien Marchon

CEO, Rydoo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sébastien Marchon serves as the CEO of Rydoo, an expense and travel management platform created through Sodexo's consolidation of Xpenditure and iAlbatros. Before leading Rydoo, he spent two decades in corporate mobility and consulting, including executive roles at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, American Express Global Business Travel, and Sodexo.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Marchon: Sodexo acquired Xpenditure and iAlbatros to launch Rydoo

“And then we build this value proposition, and to do it, we actually acquired two companies. One was named Expenditure, specialized in expense management, and the other was Ayal Batros, specialized in travel booking. We merged these two companies, we integrated…”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 6:05 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said11 Episodes1

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Disclosure

Marchon prefers running a business without full traditional founder risk

“I'm very happy to run a business as an entrepreneur without taking the full the full risk of that. It's a question of, you know, balancing the risk versus entrepreneurship.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 15:55 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Marchon: Rydoo's annual revenue churn is under 3%

“So our churn is lower than three percent. We lose less than three percent of clients every, every year.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 18:10 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Disclosure

Marchon: Rydoo charges $6 to $10 per active user monthly

“You would pay between six, six dollars and 10 user, 10 dollars per active user.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 2:59 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Disclosure

Marchon: Rydoo serves clients ranging from 1 to 450,000 employees

“We have clients that includes only one employee, and we also serve companies with 450,000 employees.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 3:16 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Disclosure

Marchon: Rydoo's average client pays around $50,000 annually

“They would pay 50,000 dollars per year.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 4:36 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Assertion Supported

Marchon: Sodexo acquired Xpenditure and iAlbatros to launch Rydoo

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 6:05 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Marchon: Rydoo serves 6,500 clients across 63 countries

“We have 6500 clients and we serve them in the 63 different countries.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 9:11 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Assertion Supported

Marchon: Sodexo owns 100% of Rydoo

“Sodexo owns 100% of the company today.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 13:49 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Disclosure

Marchon is a Sodexo employee, not Rydoo's independent founder

“Yeah, I'm an employee of Sodexo and I helped Sodexo initiate a new business in the travel and expense area.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 6:40 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Assertion Supported

Marchon: Rydoo employs 300 people

“300 people.”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 16:23 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Disclosure

Marchon: Rydoo operates travel booking and expense management modules

“We actually offer two different modules. One is a travel booking module. So you can have access to you know, thousands well, millions of rates, fares hotels, airlines car rental companies train And on top of accessing all these negotiated fares and rates we do…”

Sébastien Marchon Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 1:05 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense	Feb 13, 2020	10m

Sébastien Marchon

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