30 min
Hard-Earned Lessons From "Almost" Selling Your Company for $65M Then Having the Dot-Com Bubble Burst Skunkworks By HalfSerious
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Nicolas Vandenberghe is the Co-founder and CEO of Chili Piper, an inbound conversion software used by top B2B revenue teams, including Intuit, Twilio, and Spotify. He started the company in 2016 with his wife, Alina. They help clients increase conversions, qualify leads, and schedule meetings. The Chili Piper team is distributed around more than 160 cities and 35 countries around the world.
In this episode…
Would you start a new company after losing your last to an economic meltdown or market collapse? Would you risk your investment just to lose it again and be forced to deal with unhappy employees and investors?
When Nicolas Vandenberghe received offers to sell his company, he was ready to exit. The business had experienced tremendous growth, but some of his customers were shutting down due to the dot-com bubble burst. Still he remained optimistic that he would get a good deal. However, it never happened.
Nicolas Vandenberghe, the Co-founder and CEO of Chili Piper, joins Eric Bourget in this episode of the Skunkworks Podcast to talk about his experience of almost selling a company during the dot-com bubble burst and losing it all. Nicolas explains how he got back to entrepreneurship through Chili Piper, how his company’s software helps sales and marketing teams increase conversions, and how he manages a remote team. Stay tuned.
Nicolas Vandenberghe is the Co-founder and CEO of Chili Piper, an inbound conversion software used by top B2B revenue teams, including Intuit, Twilio, and Spotify. He started the company in 2016 with his wife, Alina. They help clients increase conversions, qualify leads, and schedule meetings. The Chili Piper team is distributed around more than 160 cities and 35 countries around the world.
In this episode…
Would you start a new company after losing your last to an economic meltdown or market collapse? Would you risk your investment just to lose it again and be forced to deal with unhappy employees and investors?
When Nicolas Vandenberghe received offers to sell his company, he was ready to exit. The business had experienced tremendous growth, but some of his customers were shutting down due to the dot-com bubble burst. Still he remained optimistic that he would get a good deal. However, it never happened.
Nicolas Vandenberghe, the Co-founder and CEO of Chili Piper, joins Eric Bourget in this episode of the Skunkworks Podcast to talk about his experience of almost selling a company during the dot-com bubble burst and losing it all. Nicolas explains how he got back to entrepreneurship through Chili Piper, how his company’s software helps sales and marketing teams increase conversions, and how he manages a remote team. Stay tuned.
30 min