Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238

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Released

December 13, 2024

Duration

1h 13m

Channel

The Twenty Minute VC

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Guillaume Moubeche is the Founder of lempire, a company he has bootstrapped in the most competitive market in technology and scaled to a staggering $30M in ARR. Guillaume has never raised primary funding for the business but sold $10M of secondary at a $150M valuation. Guillaume is also an angel investor and and best selling author. ---------------------------------------------- Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:01) Scaling lempire to $28M ARR (08:51) Biggest Mistakes in Building a 0-to-1 Sales Playbook? (10:28) Thoughts on Design Partners (12:34) The Ultimate Equation To Success In Sales (18:45) Advise for Founders to Persist or Pivot? (21:06) Top Lessons on Pricing in Competitive Markets (23:46) Are Unrealistic Expectations a Strength or a Weakness? (32:57) Lessons on Hiring (35:43) Hiring Mistakes (37:56) How Did $10M Changed the Mindset? (42:15) A Framework for Content Creation & Distribution (46;37) The Response to Founders Who Reject Personal Branding (50:46) Is There Concern About Employees Leveraging Personal Brands? (55:58) The Accident During Ironman Prep (57:06) Do Fit & Healthy Entrepreneurs Perform Better (01:01:09) What’s Guillaume’s Toughest Discipline to Maintain? (01:04:34) Quick-Fire Round ----------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode with Guillaume Moubeche:

1. How to Build a Sales Machine:

• What is the biggest mistake founders make when crafting their ideal customer profile?
• What are Guillaume’s biggest lessons in scaling from $0-$1M in ARR?
• Why are most founders afraid to sell? What can they do to overcome this?
• What is the ultimate equation to success in sales?

1. How to Build a Content Machine:

• How does Guillaume come up with ideas for new content?
• How does he structure his content creation time?
• How does Guillaume advise founders on which platform and content type they should focus on? What are the biggest mistakes they make?
• How does Guillaume think about content repackaging and reposting? What have been some of the biggest lessons in how to get the max out of existing content?

1. How to Build a Hiring Machine:

• Why does Guillaume think you should pay people well above market rate? What does it allow you to do as their employer?
• Why does Guillaume think in 90% of times, more people equals more problems?
• What have been Guillaume’s biggest hiring mistakes? What did he learn?

1. Making $10M, Ironman and Family:

• How does Guillaume reflect on his own relationship to money? How has it changed post making $10M?
• Why does Guillaume believe that endurance sports makes for better entrepreneurs?
• When asked if all the sacrifices were worth it, how does Guillaume respond? What does his life not have yet that he would most like?

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Guillaume Moubeche

  guest

• Harry Stebbings

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, featuring Guillaume Moubeche and Harry Stebbings, Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 explores bootstrapping Lemlist: Content, Sales, and Discipline to $30M ARR Guillaume Moubeche, founder of lempire (Lemlist), explains how he bootstrapped a sales engagement suite from $1,000 to nearly $30M ARR and $10M EBITDA in a hyper-competitive market.

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