Paul Teyssier

CEO

San Francisco, CA, United States28 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 25+ years building global tech businesses.
  • Led scrappy innovations to commercial impact at scale.
  • Investor and advisor in several early-stage startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive leadership experience.

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E-commerceMobile DevicesCustomer ExperienceProduct MarketingManagementBusiness StrategyProject ManagementStart-upsMobile PaymentsAnalyticsGo-to-market StrategyMobile CommerceCompetitive AnalysisWeb DesignPeople Development

About

• 25+ yrs experience building global tech businesses. • Built startups from the ground up and scaled large teams in F500 companies. • Passionate by solving customers' needs and crafting experiences that link tech and design. • Proven track record of leading scrappy innovations to commercial impact at scale. • Deep experience in building, growing and nurturing high-performing distributed diverse global teams. Investor and advisor in several early stage start-ups.

Experience

28 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Cohere

Product & Design

Jan 2026Present · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • We are entering a once-in-a-generation shift in how economies operate and how humans work.
  • AI is becoming foundational infrastructure: a new operating layer for knowledge work, decision-making, and industrial systems.
  • But this transition will not be defined by model capability alone.
  • It will be defined by who can build products enterprises trust, that integrate into real workflows while extensive data footprint, and systems that operates reliably in the world’s most demanding environments.
  • That is what I'm excited to be building with the team at Cohere. We combination of frontier research, full-stack product, and dedication to enterprise deployment and sovereign AI is quite unique.

Front

CPXO

Jan 2025May 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • At Front, we believe relationships are the foundation of great businesses. As companies grow, maintaining those relationships gets harder - so we built the best AI-powered, all-in-one customer experience platform designed for collaboration.
  • I lead the Engineering, Product, Design and Support teams. We're looking for amazing folks who want to job us on our mission. If you're interested, look here: https://front.com/jobs

Superhuman

President

Jan 2023Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Leading all the operating functions of the company: Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Sales, Customer, Support.
  • In my tenure at Superhuman, we've:
  • 4x'ed ARR growth
  • 10x'ed largest account size
  • 3x'ed roadmap velocity
  • Became #1 AI email app
  • Launched 2 new revenue lines
  • Scaled industry-defining customer support
  • +XX eNPS though full company culture transformation
  • Acquired by Grammarly

Booster

2 roles

Board Advisor

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Booster is energy delivered, integrated logistics, and society’s solution for decarbonizing the last mile. We power the delivery of everything, by reinventing the way vehicles get energy, saving more than eight million miles and four million pounds of CO2 emissions.
  • Booster is here to free everyone from the gas station errand. We are the gas station that fills your car while you work, saving you time, money, and the hassle of yet another chore.
  • Booster is breaking new ground on Consumer Apps, Enterprise Logistics Insights, Big data for climate change, Driver apps, and Fleet Routing. Join the Booster revolution by signing for our services here: https://trybooster.com/

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2017Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Joined as the first non-founder exec. Grew to the global leader in Energy Delivery and one of the most capital-efficient enablers of the clean Energy transition. Led Product, Design, Data and Customer Support.
  • During my tenure, we:
  • Grew ARR 5x
  • Expanded margin 75% unit contribution margin
  • Launched B2B Product line from zero to $XXM ARR in 3 years
  • Reduced customers carbon emissions 25–95%
  • Served 7 out of the top 10 companies in the US
  • Increased Consumer NPS from 54 to 90+

Gorgias

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Joined as first non-founder exec. Helped thousands of ecommerce merchants able to grow and compete by delivering superior customer experiences.
  • During my tenure we:
  • raised our Series C
  • launched 3 new product lines from zero to $XXM ARR, making 12% of the company's Revenue
  • established cross-functional General Manager (GM) model for scaling GTM
  • extended reach to 2 more ecosystems
  • grew the team 3x

Symphony - secure seamless communication

VP of Product

Jan 2015Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

  • Symphony is the communication platform for enterprises and businesses. Symphony allows professionals to chat inside their organizations and, equally easily, with their customers and partners outside their organization. Symphony is end-to-end encrypted and offers full-scale collaboration tools for organizations from individual professionals to hundreds of thousands of employees.
  • Joined pre-Revenue, launched for SMBs and Enterprises, led the Product team to $XXM in Revenue
  • Built most advanced developer platform and launched appstore ecosystem
  • Led user growth from zero to XX paid users

Paypal

4 roles

Senior Director of Product Management, Global Merchant Products

Jan 2013Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

  • Defined long-term strategy and convergence plans for the 30+ merchant and developer product lines globally.
  • Defined post-merger acquisition Product plan for Braintree, a $800M acquisition.
  • Led execution of the merging of 4 major technology stacks into a singular architecture, involving 50+ Product Managers and 1000+ engineers.

Senior Director of Product Management, Americas Region

Jan 2012Jan 2013 · 1 yr

  • Led all Product lines for Consumers and Merchants in US, Canada and Latin America, $2.4B Revenue region in 2013, the largest for PayPal globally.
  • Defined market-entry strategy for in-store buying experiences, leveraging bluetooth low energy (BLE) technologies.
  • Started a cross-company program to address customer churn for merchants through voice of customer (VOC) feedback.
  • Created and scaled regional engineering teams to deliver high-ROI innovations.
  • Transformed team and culture to create crafted products and experiences directly with largest merchants and partners.

Director of Product Management, CEMEA Region

Jan 2010Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Led Product for PayPal in the Central Europe, Middle East and Africa Region (CEMEA), including France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Israel, Russia. Grew from $350M Revenue in 2010 to $700M in 2012, largest contributer of new Consumers to the PayPal network globally.
  • Defined aggressive Consumer acquisition program leveraging fast iterative data-driven experience changes (aka growth hacking). Increased acquisition trends from +4% to +24% YoY, brought 7M new consumers.
  • Developed multichannel activation program for businesses. Doubled activation rates, drove $30M new Revenue.
  • Led PayPal Product entry into new geographies in Europe, with distinct offerings variants, most recently Russia. Built repeatable globalization practices now part of PayPal's toolset.
  • Built first multicountry Product leadership team, across 9 countries and cultures. Major focus on shared innovations with external partners. Organization model extended to all PayPal markets.

Director of Product Management, France

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs

  • Led Product for PayPal France. Grew the business from $20M in Revenue in 2006 to $100M in 2010.
  • Identified opportunity for a new SMB Product, designed, built and launched commercially in France and UK to a $10M Revenue product line per year, with 100%+ YoY growth. PayPal Advanced was then launched in US, Italy, Spain, Australia and Asia.
  • Developed joint Europe-wide customer experience improvement program. Drove $8M new yearly Revenue in Europe. Most initiatives extended globally. Program was awarded the global "PayPalian Award".
  • Built product and experience team from scratch, across product strategy, product marketing, development, launch, user experience design, content, localization and QA.

Numa

Mentor

Jan 2010Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Paris Area, France

  • Mentored 3 seasons of early-stage startups on geographical scaling strategies, consumer growth, and user experience. http://www.lecamping.org / https://www.linkedin.com/school/numa-paris/

Accenture

Consultant

Jan 2002Jan 2006 · 4 yrs

  • Learned how to articulate massive tech-driven transformation like mobile or CRM.
  • Led high-stake implementations under crazy timelines, many late nights, with amazingly driven folks.
  • Developed a semi-pathological obsession for painstakingly clear, succinct and well-crafted slides.

Business interactif, now part of publicis groupe

Consultant

Jan 2001Jan 2002 · 1 yr

Atomix productions inc

Founder and CEO

Jan 1999Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

  • Virtual DJ, global leader in live music mixing software. http://www.virtualdj.com
  • Designed, built, launched and grew to 10M users.
  • Created and engaged community of 10,000+ members.
  • Developed business partnerships with eJay, Carl Cox and Ministry Of Sound

Crossknowledge

Co-Founder and VP Product

Jan 1998Jan 1999 · 1 yr

  • CrossKnowledge is the European Leader in e-Learning solutions. Acquired by John Wiley & Sons in 2014. http://www.crossknowledge.com
  • Designed, built, launched first version of Crossknowledge e-Learning Product Suite.

Armée de l’air et de l’espace

Lieutenant

Jan 1997Jan 1998 · 1 yr · France

  • Military service as lieutenant in the French Air Force. Platoon leader at Air force commando training center.

Education

INSEAD

MBA — General Management

École Polytechnique

Master's Degree — Mathematics and Computer Science

ArtCenter College of Design

Joint Business/Design/Technology program with INSEAD

Télécom Paris

Master's Degree — Computer Science

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