801: Philippe Bouissou | Aligning the Dots

How well is your business aligned for growth?   In today’s episode, Travis interviews Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. Philippe has spent three decades in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a venture capitalist, and a management consultant. He is a Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a firm he co-founded focused on top-line acceleration. He started his career as the founder and CEO of G2i, Inc., a Unix software company that Matra acquired. He then was Senior Vice President at Matra Hachette Multimedia, Inc., where he led US business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company before joining Apple as Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce group, where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350 million. During his career, Bouissou led over 120 management-consulting projects with companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, and Verisign. He served on the board of directors of 20 companies, including ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Silicon Valley, where he currently serves. Tune in as Travis and Philippe discuss why it’s crucial to adapt to any business situation and how Philippe reinvented himself when facing different challenges as an entrepreneur  Philippe dives deep into how Blue Dots Partners helps multimillion companies grow by 38% and how it allows CEOs of technology and services companies with at least $10 million in revenue to grow their top-line faster. He also shares the idea behind his new book  Aligning the Dots: The New Paradigm to Grow Any Business and how the four principles of alignment will help any company grow in just a few months.   Key Highlights:    [00:01 - 08:30] Reinventing and Adapting Constantly Traveling around the world at an early age and adapting to each culture Pivoting from his earlier plan of being a pilot From coding in a lab to create his first company in Silicon Valey     [08:31 - 16:02] Founding and Managing the online Apple Store The advantages of having engineers in Europe to work on a startup Joining Apple and developing the online Apple Store idea How Philippe’s conviction changed Apple and its relationship with its clients     [16:05 -17:55] A Venture Capitalist The challenges of being a Venture Capitalist and dealing with CEOs Philippe’s true passion with being involved with IT and Operations   [17:56 -28:46] Blue Dots Partners and Aligning The Dots How every company is different, and not every growth strategy is a good fit The four principles of alignment  Why is there only one business on the entire planet How Blue Dots analyses the alignment of companies Tweetable Quote:  “ There is only one business in this planet, and that business is the manufacturing and delivery of delights” - Philippe Bouissou  Get your copy of Aligning the Dots: Aligning the Dots: The New Paradigm to Grow Any Business. Click here Connect with Philippe: LinkedIn   Visit: https://bluedotspartners.com/   Follow Philippe on:   Twitter: @phBouissou                Did you love the value that we are putting out in the show? LEAVE A REVIEW and tell us what you think about the episode so we can continue putting out great content just for you! Share this episode and help someone who wants to connect with world-class people.  Jump on over to travischappell.com/makemypodcast and let my team make you your very own show! If you want to learn how to build YOUR network, check out my website travischappell.com. You can connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy