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nidup 🐝

Partnering with SaaS Founders to Grow Their Business

Nicolas Dupont

Entrepreneur 🐝

  • Former co-founder and CPTO @ Akeneo
  • From a side project to a global company with 450+ teammates in 10+ countries
  • Served 1,000+ mid-market and enterprise customers

Product & Tech Leader 🛠️

  • Building software for 20+ years
  • Bootstraped, led, and scaled product, engineering, data, design, and support (160+ reports)
  • Served 25k+ business users and millions api calls per day

Advisor & Mentor 🤝

  • Partnering with 20+ founders to scale businesses from €0 to €100M+ ARR
  • Serving as an advisor, mentor, investor, or board member
  • Mentoring founders to solve pressing issues
Nicolas Dupont, aka, nidup

Experience

Advisor, Investor, Board Member
Advisor, Investor, Board Member
nidup (2017 - now)

I'm partnering with 20+ entrepreneurs to scale software businesses (bootstrapped or VC-backed, from 0€ to 100M€ of ARR) from finding product-market fit to building growth engines, from setting up core teams to scaling organizations that deliver on business outcomes, from onboarding early adopters to satisfying even the most demanding customers. And above all, I help founders to tackle the struggles that keep them up at night.

Co-founder & CPTO
Co-founder & CPTO
Akeneo (Oct 2012 - Mar 2024)

I bootstrapped, led, and scaled product, engineering, data, design, and support teams and practices to create massive business value and establish our global category leadership. From a blank page to a SaaS platform serving 25.000 users, 1.000 mid-market/enterprise customers, and millions of API calls per day. From coding a side project with my co-founders to leading a vibrant product department of 160 talented teammates in Europe, United States, and Australia.

Tech & Product Mentor
Tech & Product Mentor
Plato (May 2019 - Jan 2023)

Individual mentoring of tech & product leaders. Leadership and people management skills to grow collaborator and team proficiency. Shape goals and ownership structures to ship business value. Organize teams from 2 to 100 to maintain efficiency at scale.

R&D Manager
R&D Manager
MyStore (Jan 2012 - Dec 2012)

Reset tech team and practices to accelerate business value delivery. Shifted from waterfall to agile practices and introduced continuous deployment. Delivered key projects on e-mailing, payment, performance, and scalability to increase private sales business (60M CHF).

Technical Project Manager
Technical Project Manager
Smile (Jan 2009 - Dec 2011)

Led tech teams to deliver e-commerce projects (Nestlé, Hermes, etc.) on time and within budget. Obsessed with customer satisfaction and business outcomes.

Software Engineer (freelance)
Software Engineer (freelance)
Freelance (Dec 2008 - Nov 2011)

Designed, developed, deployed, and maintained several web applications and e-commerce websites for small and medium-sized businesses.

Software Developer (internship)
Software Developer (internship)
Makina Corpus (Mar 2008 - Aug 2008)
Software Developer (internship)
Software Developer (internship)
Code Lutin (Mar 2007 - Aug 2007)
Software Developer (internship)
Software Developer (internship)
Société Générale (May 2005 - Aug 2005)