DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital
Description
Rodolphe Ardant is the cofounder and CEO of Spendesk which is a smart spend management software designed for both finance teams and employees. The company has raised over $60 million from top tier investors including Index Ventures, Kima Ventures, FundersClub, Eight Roads Ventures, Financiere Saint James, and eFounders to name a few.
In this episode you will learn:
How to raise money when VCs don’t get your product
Strategies for getting your first customers
How Spendesk works
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For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Rodolphe Ardant:
Rodolphe Ardant is the cofounder and CEO of Spendesk.
Furthermore, Rodople Ardant is the former COO of Drivy and founder of Wozaik.
Rodolphe has a background in engineering with a degree from Ecole Polytechnique.
Connect with Rodolphe Ardant:
* Linkedin
* Crunchbase
* Twitter
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FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone, and welcome to the DealMakers show. I’m very excited about the founder that we have today because I think that we’re going to be learning quite a bit on polishing and getting to product/market fit when you didn’t even know that there was the direction to go – building, scaling, dealing with COVID challenges, and you name it. So I think it’s going to be interesting, and I don’t want to make our guest wait any longer, so without further ado, let’s welcome our guest. Rodolphe Ardant, welcome to the show.
Rodolphe Ardant: Hi, Alejandro. Thank you for having me.
Alejandro: Life growing up and being born in Paris, you moved quite a bit, so tell us how life was for you, and how was that environment of jumping from one place to another?
Rodolphe Ardant: I was born in France, in Del France, actually, and spent my childhood in Paris. My parents, my dad was in the commission of [02:13]. He was working in a bank and was moving from country to co...
In this episode you will learn:
How to raise money when VCs don’t get your product
Strategies for getting your first customers
How Spendesk works
SUBSCRIBE ON:
For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Rodolphe Ardant:
Rodolphe Ardant is the cofounder and CEO of Spendesk.
Furthermore, Rodople Ardant is the former COO of Drivy and founder of Wozaik.
Rodolphe has a background in engineering with a degree from Ecole Polytechnique.
Connect with Rodolphe Ardant:
* Crunchbase
* * *
FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone, and welcome to the DealMakers show. I’m very excited about the founder that we have today because I think that we’re going to be learning quite a bit on polishing and getting to product/market fit when you didn’t even know that there was the direction to go – building, scaling, dealing with COVID challenges, and you name it. So I think it’s going to be interesting, and I don’t want to make our guest wait any longer, so without further ado, let’s welcome our guest. Rodolphe Ardant, welcome to the show.
Rodolphe Ardant: Hi, Alejandro. Thank you for having me.
Alejandro: Life growing up and being born in Paris, you moved quite a bit, so tell us how life was for you, and how was that environment of jumping from one place to another?
Rodolphe Ardant: I was born in France, in Del France, actually, and spent my childhood in Paris. My parents, my dad was in the commission of [02:13]. He was working in a bank and was moving from country to co...