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https://youtu.be/6h8kcd2PWsI
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Following on from Paul's talk about some of
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the ways to think about becoming or
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what it takes to become, or whether you might believe you might become $100 billion
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business. I am going to have a conversation
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with Mathilde Collin who is in the
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process of building one of those $100 billion businesses and she's going to be able
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to tell us all about that and her
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company called Front so Mathilde, what Patreon
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1Summer 14.
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Summer 14 Wow already four years ago. So
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tell us about if you would your
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journey to being the CEO of Front.
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Sure. In just a few seconds so I
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think I've always been wanting to start
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a company but the main thing is I didn't feel confident enough to think that
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I would one day build a company so I was hearing all these people saying,
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“Oh yeah, I'll start a company”. And I was like, “I wish I could say
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that but I just don't feel like a can do it”. Instead, what I did
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is after I graduated, I joined a startup that was super small, doing a contract
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management software and that's when I discovered the world of softwares. There is something that
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went well during this first experience in something that didn't do well so what went
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well is I became very passionate about software is in general, and I just felt
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like the fact that you could build something in a few months that could change
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how people work and people spend so much time at work, I felt was super