Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
I spent the last 3 years building barooders.com, a leading european marketplace for second hand bikes. - launched the company in 2021 - scaled business volume to 5m€ / year - raised 3.5m€ in funding - hired a team of 15 talented engineers, marketers and operationals Due to challenging market conditions and lack of profitability we had to shut down the business. My time is now split between: 1/ helping companies (B2B and B2C) scale their customer acquisition and maximise their revenue, as an external consultant 2/ looking for cofounders and business ideas to create a new redefining business. Interested by the fields of AI, SaaS, Cloud, B2B Don't hesitate to reach out if you are interested by one of the 2!
Barooders.com was a leading online marketplace for second hand sport goods and refurbished bikes. We raised 2.5m€ equity funding from Business Angels and Seed funds. Hired a team of 12 talented engineers, marketers and operationals. Scaled the marketplace to 50k listed items (biggest refurbished bike catalogue in Europe), 500 partner pro resellers, and 500k€ monthly business volume. Because of very adverse market conditions, making financing for the business impossible, and no economic breakeven, we had to close the company. I was in charge of: - Data : setting up and managing our data infrastructure (BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran, Metabase), and fueling data within all business teams. - Operations : setup internal processes, and IT tools to enhance productivity of operational duties : customer support, content moderation, aftersale and payments management. - Tech : oversaw management of our tech team (engineering manager + 2 lead devs), took part in critical tech and architecture decisions. - Customer acquisition : setup and managed a data-driven customer acquisition. 20k products feed listed on Google Shopping, achieving a 15x ROAS.
Private debt investments in French SMEs Actively participated in more than 10 deals, in various industries (Industrials, Retail, Chemistry, Services) and for various projects (acquisition financing, corporate development)
Supervisory staff and instructor in a regiment of the French “Troupes de Marine” (Marines Corp) for about 40 recently enlisted soldiers. Field exercises, sports and technical training