EP #68 - Ariel Lüdi: How To Sell a Company For 1.5bn $

Timestamps:

11:31 - Scaling from 0 to 150 million in revenue within 6 years

23:23 - Why not just enjoy a billionaire fortune?

35:08 - Closing an intercontinental gap

43:50 - Ariel's most surreally successful moment

52:34 - Being the "anti-venture capitalist"


Biography

Ariel Lüdi is a parachute stuntman turned millionaire. After dropping out of his physics degree at ETH Zurich, Ariel joined IBM as a developer. From there he joined Oracle, where he discovered his passion and talent for sales. After 8 very successful years as SVP of Sales at Broad Vision and Salesforce, he joined Hybris as CEO. He invested all his previous earnings into the company and even went into debt. In 2013, he sold Hybris to SAP for $ 1.5bn.

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The Swisspreneur Show is a podcast series of in-depth, candid conversations with some of Switzerland’s most successful founders, business leaders and innovators. By getting to the heart of these leaders’ stories - their successes, their failures, their must-have advice and greatest regrets - we hope to both inspire and guide the next generation of Swiss entrepreneurs. Each episode deconstructs and showcases one person’s personal and professional background and provides advice and recommendations for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in Switzerland.