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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

CTO & co-founder at TILKEE, Timothée has an engineering background. As the original founder of oXfoZ, he managed complex web-based projects. He was also a project manager at Traveldoo and carried out several missions for "Doctors Without Borders" as a volunteer. His last challenge was launching TILKEE with Sylvain Tillon in 2012 as the technical director.

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0:00.0	Guys, there you have it from Tim, founder of Tilke back in 2012.
0:02.9	He would have had more self-confidence earlier on.
0:05.1	I think he did a great job today on the show, and the company's doing really well.
0:08.7	Just 13 months ago, when he came on this show, they had about 800 customers, $125 Arpoo.
0:14.4	They had raised $1.5 million doing about $100 grand per year in revenue, or sorry, per month in revenue.
0:21.6	Today, they've scaled to about $150 grand per year and revenue or sorry per month in revenue today they've scaled to about 150 grand per month and pure SaaS revenue add another 20 or 30 grand on top of
0:26.8	that per month in terms of professional services revenue so almost doubling year over year
0:30.2	1600 customers arpoos about the same they've got 6% logo churn per month 160 dollar tack
0:36.3	with almost you know less than almost a two a two payback period, which is really, really healthy.
0:41.3	Team of 30 based out there in Leon, France, helping make sales documents and the process they go through more efficient, raising money, $5 million today as well.
0:50.2	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:56.6	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider
1:06.5	information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
1:13.6	I had no money when I started the company.
1:15.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars, which is the size of any IPOs.
1:18.6	We're a bit strapped.
1:19.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
1:23.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
1:33.3	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:38.2	Hello, everyone.
1:39.1	My guest today is Tim Salme.
1:41.4	He's the CTO and co-founder of a company called Tilki, and he has an engineering background.
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