Todays guest is Nicolas Vandenberghe who is the CEO of https://www.chilipiper.com/
? Started in 2016 with his wife as co-founder, Chili Piper is a fully distributed company – leveraging global talent with employees in 42 cities in 16 countries ?
Nicolas Vandenberghe began his career selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique and then received his MBA from Stanford GSB. He started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, and also ran sales for a $2B telecom firm negotiating billion-dollar deals with companies like Google.
In 2016, he co-founded his 4th startup and presently is the CEO of the SaaS firm Chili Piper. Its mission is to reinvent the system of action of Sales professionals to provide them with new levels of productivity and job satisfaction. The firm is reinventing scheduling, calendar and inbox, the main apps used by revenue teams.
Its scheduling platform is used by Intuit, Square, Twilio, Gainsight and more than 300+ thought-leading companies worldwide for multiple use cases, from connecting prospects to sales reps instantly upon submitting a form to automating their on-boarding process. Nicolas bootstrapped Chile Piper past $2M ARR before attracting $3M in seed funding in 2019.
Podcast Topics:
– Intro to Nicolas and what he does at Chili Piper ?️
-Why he decided to start a SASS company with his wife as co-founder
– What a fully distributed company like Chili Piper look for in a remote employee
– Why sales & marketing teams need to be open to re-education about KPI’s and collaboration.
-How to achieve huge increases in Inbound leads with targeted funneling from your frond end
– Tips for people looking to land a remote job
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