#23 Netherlands: Keeping your founding team (of 6!) together untill the exit (Robert-Jan Verheggen)
Description
Entrepreneur #23 out of 100: Robert-Jan Verheggen, co-founder of Klippa
Building a startup is hard. Staying in it for almost 10 years is even harder. Doing it with six co-founders鈥攁nd successfully exiting together? That鈥檚 rare.
In this episode, I talk to Robert-Jan Verheggen, co-founder of Klippa, a Dutch tech company that recently made a successful exit after nearly a decade of building. He started Klippa with six technical co-founders, and together they navigated the full founder journey: from idea to team formation, through cashflow stress, competing job offers, motivation dips, and finally, to the finish line. Two months ago they sold the business, with the same 6 founders they started with.
We talk about his personal journey, how they picked the founding team (or maybe how it picked itself), and the realities of building a company in the Netherlands.
In this episode:
馃挕 How to keep going when you're building with a large founding team
馃挕 What happens when the money runs out
馃挕 How to make big decisions鈥攍ike selling the company鈥攖ogether
馃挕 And if selling your business is needed to make it all worth it
A conversation about founder drive, finding fun in building businesses and what it takes to keep a founding team together.
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