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🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Emmanuel is the CEO of Dashlane, the world's best password manager. He has over 20 years of management experience across the technology and media sectors.
Prior to Dashlane, he was CEO of CBS Outdoor France, EVP at Vivendi Universal Games, and the Founder and CEO of Flipside.com. He began his career focused on navigation algorithms for the Mars Exploration Rover.
Emmanuel has a Master's in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universite de Toulouse; he also completed the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.
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0:00.0 | He wishes you knew nothing more than what he already knew. He's really enjoying the journey, |
0:02.7 | having a lot of fun. Likes thinking about Mars, decided to go do something more practical. |
0:06.9 | In the short term, we're going to have a bigger impact. And that is passwords and password management, |
0:10.7 | really, you know, the backward trend of cybersecurity in general. |
0:13.7 | 2012, the company was launched. They've now passed, or they're about to hit 10 million total |
0:17.3 | users on, they're adding out 250,000 new users to the platform every single month, |
0:22.3 | about 50-50 installing mobile first versus desktop. They've converted a significant portion |
0:26.7 | of those caught between 5 and 8% to actual paying customers about to cross $2 million |
0:32.4 | in monthly recurring revenue or $24 million in ARR, 105% net revenue retention annually, again, with their team of |
0:38.9 | about 180 people based all around the country, super healthy payback period to less than 12 months. |
0:44.1 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and |
0:50.4 | got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
0:55.5 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information |
1:01.1 | that creates business news headlines. |
1:04.8 | We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million. |
1:08.0 | I had no money when I started the company. |
1:10.0 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
1:13.3 | We're a bit strapped. |
1:14.3 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
1:18.2 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
1:22.4 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
1:27.4 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, |
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