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Nathan Latka

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4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Before joining plista, Gagnon worked for PwC both in Canada and Germany. In his last role he served as Manager Strategy Consulting in Berlin advising tech companies on their international expansion. He also acted as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Canada China Business Council and brings many years of experience in various strategy and international business development roles at Bombardier Inc.

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0:00.0	Don't give too much importance to other people's opinions.
0:03.4	He was working and did a lot of business in the ad space in general.
0:07.2	Join WPP was a manager there.
0:08.6	PLista was acquired by a group inside of WPP for about, you know,
0:12.1	it's reported 30 million on 3.6 million euros in revenue.
0:15.8	He's since scaled that business.
0:17.7	They're thinking about publishing side.
0:19.6	They're thinking about the advertising side. They're thinking about things like branded content and how they continue to stay super
0:24.3	relevant in the years moving forward.
0:27.4	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies
0:33.4	and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
0:38.7	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.
0:48.0	We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started the company.
0:53.3	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars, which is the size of any IPOs.
0:56.7	We're a bit strapped.
0:57.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
1:01.5	With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,
1:05.7	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest-growing business show on iTunes.
1:10.7	I'm your host, Nathan Latka,
1:12.7	and here's today's episode. Hello, everyone. My guest today is Michelle Gagnon. He is the
1:19.1	CEO currently of a company called PLista. Now, before joining the company, he worked for PWC,
1:24.1	both in Canada and Germany, and in his last role, he served as managing manager strategy consulting in Berlin advising tech companies on their international expansion.
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