What Doctolib's CMO Learned from Hypergrowth - Elie du Pré de Saint Maur (TOMCAT)

Most startups fail not from lack of talent, but from lack of experience. When a 28-year-old founder has only recruited three people in their life, they're walking into lethal mistakes that seem obvious to someone with 20 years of experience.Elie du Pré de Saint Maur is co-founder of TOMCAT, a French venture fund and accelerator that works with early-stage B2B startups. Before co-founding TOMCAT in 2020, Elie spent 20 years in marketing and strategy leadership roles at Edenred, Cromology, and Doctolib, where he served as CMO during the COVID telemedicine explosion in 2020. At TOMCAT, he screens 2,500 startups a year and leads a six-month intensive programme that de-risks investment by working hands-on with founding teams before deploying capital.In this clip, Elie shares the single most powerful lesson he learned from Doctolib CEO Stan during the company's hypergrowth phase: the ability to prioritize brutally. He explains why saying no to 90 percent of topics is the skill that separates high-growth companies from those that stall, and why the most precious resource in a startup is not cash—it's the founder's time.🎯 Stan's ability to say stop everything and do this one thing⏱️ Why founder time is more scarce than capital❌ The nine topics you need to say no to in order to make one thing happen🏢 What traditional companies get wrong about prioritization🔥 How Doctolib moved mountains in days during the March 2020 lockdownSubscribe to Aulium for more conversations on innovation and private capital.About Elie du Pré de Saint Maur [Co-founder TOMCAT]:Elie du Pré de Saint Maur is co-founder of TOMCAT, a French venture fund and accelerator for early-stage B2B startups. Before launching TOMCAT in 2020, he spent 20 years in marketing and strategy roles at Edenred, Cromology, and Doctolib, where he was CMO during the COVID telemedicine explosion in 2020.About Aulium:Aulium is a video show exploring Innovation and Private Capital, hosted by Thomas Viguier.Connect with us:➡ Aulium on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aulium➡ Thomas Viguier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tviguier/