Pinckaers: Odoo plans a secondary exit because they have too much money
Fabien Pinckaers · 1625 How $31M ARR CEO Profits $500k/mo and Cracked SMB Net Retention of 110% · Jan 5, 2020 · at 16:12
Fabien Pinckaers, founder and CEO of Odoo, discusses future financing and shareholder liquidity plans for the profitable ERP software company.
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“No, we might have a secondary exit to help one of our investor to go out, but we plan to, we have too much money. We don't know what to do.”
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