BILLIONS

Today on BILLIONS, I'm sitting down with Ross Andrew Paquette , the CEO who broke every Silicon Valley rule: he bought OUT his investors before buidling a 1.7 billion dollar empire. He founded Maropost in 2011, and by 2016, it ranked #7 on the PROFIT 500 as one of Canada's fastest-growing companies. Ross, thanks a lot for being here! TIMELINE : 00:00:00 - 00:01:12 : From lifestyle business...

Today on BILLIONS, I'm sitting down with Cornelius Schmahl — a college dropout who keeps finding his way into billion-dollar outcomes. At 23, Uber sent him to markets nobody wanted. South Africa. Uganda. Ghana. No playbook. Figure it out or fail. By 27, he was running Uber Russia. One problem: Yandex was winning. He helped engineer a 3.7 billion dollar merger — then walked away from operating...

Today on BILLIONS , I’m sitting down with Noah Kagan — the guy who got fired from Facebook before it was worth a trillion… and turned that loss into the biggest comeback story in online business. He went from losing a fortune on paper to building AppSumo , a $100 million-a-year bootstrapped empire - all without raising a single dollar of VC money. Noah, thanks a lot for being here! TIMELINE 00:00:...

Today on BILLIONS, I'm sitting down with Stan Massueras - the guy who's scaled companies to billion-dollar valuations not once, but multiple times. He was one of Facebook's first European sales hires in 2008, then helped Twitter expand across the continent and after that, he spent six years scaling Intercom to unicorn status. Now he's doing it all over again at ElevenLabs , the voi...

Today on BILLIONS , I’m sitting down with Arthur Waller , one of the sharpest French founders of his generation. He sold his first company to Booking.com in his twenties — and instead of retiring, he came back to build Pennylane , a fintech that turned accountants from enemies into growth partners and became one of europe fastest-growing unicorn. In this episode, we will discuss how six co-founder...

Today on  BILLIONS , I’m sitting down with one of Europe’s youngest General Partners —  Jonathan Userovici  from  Headline , a global venture firm that spots the next billion-dollar companies  before  anyone else. Jonathan’s already backed some of Europe’s fastest-growing unicorns and he’s quietly redefining what it means to invest with both  data  and  instinct . In this episode, I want to talk a...

Today on BILLIONS , I’m sitting down with Harry Stebbings — the guy who turned a microphone in his bedroom into a $400 million venture fund . He started The Twenty Minute VC as a teenager, and it became the place where the smartest founders of unicorns, and the world’s best investors all lined up to talk. In this episode, Harry opens up about the deals he missed , the unicorns he caught early like...

Today on BILLIONS , I’m sitting down with Nicolas Dessaigne — the engineer who bet everything on one idea, built Algolia into a multi-billion-dollar global search platform… and then did something almost no founder ever does: he walked away. Nicolas went from obsessing over one company for a decade… to shaping hundreds of startups every year as a General Partner at Y Combinator , the most influenti...

Most marketers dream of having Gong’s billion dollar brand. But few realize that behind every courageous campaign, there’s an even more courageous marketer. In today’s episode of BILLIONS I have the pleasure to interview Udi Ledegor , chief evangelist and former CMO at Gong . I’ve known Udi for a few years now, and not only I’ve always been super impressed by how Gong’s brand is so unique but also...