Octave Auger

Reporting into the CEO as part of the executive team at Lyvly, a shared living startup re-inventing renting in large cities, I am responsible for overall revenue growth, marketing and consumer sales, managing a team of 9.

Joined Paddle, the Revenue Delivery Platform and amongst the 5 fastest growing SaaS startups in the UK, to build their marketing function from scratch, overseeing growth, brand and product marketing. Helped scale from $100k to $1m MRR, and from 30 to 140 people, raising over $20m.

Joined early when GoCardless, now a fintech unicorn, was only a team of 30 to help one of the two major growth plans, the European expansion where I played a succession of roles to plan the Go-To-Market strategy, enter the first market in France, and coordinate the rest of the expansion.

Joined the leading B2B payment provider as employee #100 as Senior Marketer and quickly became responsible for the newly launched consumer product, promoted 3 times to become the 2nd youngest VP, reporting to the co-CEO. Built a €10m/year B2C business from scratch, up to a €600m exit.

GameGoods is the European leader in virtual goods for online gaming with a €10m annual turnover and 40 employees - Turned the company profitable - Acquired a competitor - Grew revenues via strategic partnerships and new services

Responsible for online marketing and business development of the French market for GameGoods, in Cologne (Germany)