#068 – Finding Success as a First-Time Founder with Mathilde Collin of Front

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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When Mathilde Collin (@collinmathilde) started her first company, she knew she wanted to create a great place to work and to improve the lives of her customers. The product was just an implementation detail. Learn how she picked up the skills she needed to succeed, and built a 100-person company with over 3600 happy, paying customers.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/068-mathilde-collin-of-front

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:08.6	This is Cortland from EndieHackers.com and you're listening to the EndieHackers podcast.
0:12.9	On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses.
0:16.1	I've tried to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.
0:18.4	How do they get to where they are today?
0:19.8	How do they make decisions both at their companies and in their personal lives?
0:23.3	And what makes their businesses tick?
0:25.1	Today I am talking to Matilda Colin, the CEO of Front.
0:28.0	Front has been described as a multiplayer version of Gmail.
0:31.2	It's a shared inbox that puts all of your emails, apps, and teammates, and one collaborative workspace.
0:36.2	Matilda, welcome to the Indie Hackers podcast, and thank you so much for coming on.
0:39.8	Thank you for having me.
0:41.6	So Front is a very impressive company.
0:43.8	I think you guys have over 3,500 customers now.
0:46.7	Is that right?
0:48.0	Yeah, I think over 3,600 now.
0:51.5	Okay, yeah.
0:52.3	And you guys have achieved a lot since you started it about four years ago.
0:55.6	And I want to start by getting to know more about you as an individual. What kind of person
0:59.8	becomes the CEO of a company like Front? And what were you doing before you started this company?
1:05.1	Sure. So I started the company when I was pretty young. I think I was 23, so I've not done much before doing France.
1:12.9	Basically, I went to a business school in France. I graduated. I then joined a startup. It was a software
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