{"id":12114,"date":"2010-02-10T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:21:52","slug":"how-to-build-a-billion-dollar-european-software-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/how-to-build-a-billion-dollar-european-software-company.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Build a Billion-Dollar European Software Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"Bernard-Liautaud\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bernardliautaud.jpg?resize=690%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bernard-Liautaud\" width=\"690\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\"> Photo: Bernard Liautaud in the mid-90s<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/london-entrepreneurship.com\/events\/2010\/bernard_liautaud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Business School<\/a>, here\u2019s a great presentation by <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/pub\/bernard-liautaud\/9\/344\/5a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard Liautaud<\/a>, founder and eighteen-year CEO of BusinessObjects, explaining how he and his team created the first \u201cEuropean silicon valley startup\u201d, growing the company from zero to a billion dollars in revenue, and then selling to SAP for $6.7bn. Bernard is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balderton.com\/our-team\/#bernard-liautaud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General Partner of Balderton Capital<\/a>, one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balderton.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the largest venture capital funds in Europe<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/9224438\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/9224438\">Bernard Liautaud at LBS<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/helpfulcca\">Raj Kotecha<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How BusinessObjects became the first &#8220;European Silicon Valley startup&#8221;, growing from zero to a billion dollars, by Bernard Liautaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,160,198,204,213,457,911],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acquisition","tag-bi","tag-business-analytics","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-europe","tag-sap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bernardliautaudcover.jpg?fit=668%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-39o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}