807: He Exited His Company Than Invests $1m Into Energy Company For Operations Roll

Oct 9, 2017

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Christopher Engman, the founder of companies like Vendemore, Retain24, TaxiSystem and many others and he's also an active investor. One of his companies, which he's now active and an investor in is called Climeon. He's also involved with Proof Analytics, Trigger Bee and many others.

Famous Five:

Favorite Book? – Inside the Tornado
What CEO do you follow? – N/A
Favorite online tool? — LinkedIn
How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7
If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Put learning fast in front of prestige"

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01:38 – Nathan introduces Christopher to the show
02:14 – All of the companies Christopher founded are profitable and are growing companies
02:50 – Christopher's biggest exit was Vendemore
- 03:04 – Christopher ran it for 9 years
- 03:12 – Vendemore was initially bootstrapped and raised funds
- 03:51 – The exit was three years ago
- 04:42 – Christopher and his wife owned 75% of Vendemore
05:40 – Christopher took 50% of his Vendemore exit to start Climeon
- 05:53 – It has 350 shareholders
06:11 – Christopher believes that Climeon will be the next dominant player in mechanical engineering
07:13 – It is easier to raise funds if you have a number of shareholders
- 07:28 – The next round for Climeon will be a big round
08:08 – Christopher shares how Climeon works
- 09:50 – The process of energy transformation inside the Climeon
10:37 – Christopher believes in the potential of Climeon
11:24 – Team size is 40
11:41 – Climeon has less than 10 customers
12:10 – Climeon's target clients are steel plants, cement plants and those in geothermal energy
12:36 – Christopher runs sales and marketing
12:42 – Climeon's founder is in CTO side
12:54 – Christopher shares how he found out about Climeon
- 13:20 – Christopher's shares in the company is quite big
14:05 – The starting contract value of Climeon
14:40 – Climeon is getting several hundreds of millions of dollars per client
14:51 – Christopher doesn't get commission from the sales
16:40 – The Famous Five

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