Amazing chat with Simon De Baene (@debaenes)⁠ the Co-Founder and CEO of ⁠Workleap⁠! Workleap (@WorkleapHQ) is for HR teams that need to solve HR challenges. They help you make your people happier and more productive with the easiest employee experience technology to launch, manage and love. Workleap is doing ~$150M in annual revenue! They achieved this with no outside funding until Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) invested $125M in 2023 We discussed... - Why the original name Gsoft was inspired by G-Unit. - Starting Gsoft (now Workleap) at 20 years old right out of school - Transitioning from a service company to a product company. - Building products allows for more control over destiny. - The decision to shut down the service side to focus on products. - Raising the first external capital from CDPQ after 19+ years. - Maintaining passion for close to 20 years. - Working half his life on Workleap. - Achieving $150M in revenue. - Major rebrand to WorkLeap and how to do that well. - The impacts of AI in the HR space. - Building company culture. - Why you can't be everything to everyone. - The importance of embracing change and letting go of nostalgia. - Building and staying in Montreal. - His one regret in building Workleap, not surrounding himself with advisors and mentors earlier. - What he has learned from board member JD Saint-Martin (President of Lightspeed).