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Partnering with SaaS Founders to Grow Their Business
Nicolas Dupont
I'm an entrepreneur, business-obsessed product & tech leader with expertise in B2B SaaS. Former co-founder and chief product officer at Akeneo, I led and scaled product and tech activities for 11+ years to create massive business value for 1000+ mid-market and enterprise customers. I love software businesses, enjoy helping entrepreneurs and executives, and support startups as an investor, advisor, or board member.
Experience
I'm partnering with 20+ entrepreneurs to scale software businesses (bootstrapped or VC-backed, from 0€ to 70M€ 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.
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 billions 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.
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.
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).
Led tech teams to deliver e-commerce projects (Nestlé, Hermes, etc.) on time and within budget. Obsessed with customer satisfaction and business outcomes.
Designed, developed, deployed, and maintained several web applications and e-commerce websites for small and medium-sized businesses.
