Meet the French 28-year old entrepreneur that raised $6 million to match executives with remote assistants: ForbesUnder30
“For us, time is a resource and it is probably our most precious resource because we don't get it again,” Default says. “The higher up a person goes into an organization or the busier they get, the more precious their time becomes.”
The assistants assist executives with all types of remote work. Among the most popular ones: scheduling and calendar management as a whole, travel management, booking hotels flights, cars, helping you prep for meetings, following up, managing social accounts. In addition, they also help clients with personal tasks like book doctor appointments, or registering for activities.
The company has a 5-hour per month minimum for executives, that starts at $250 . The more an executive uses their double, the cheaper the hour becomes: $45 per hour after 10h used per month, and $40 per hour after 25h used per month. Per Default, most clients fall into the 10-15 hour per month range. by Microsoft in 2015. The trio kept working for Microsoft, until they started their own company in April of 2018. At first, they reached out to friends and people they knew.
However, the COVID-19 lockdown and the economic hardship has taken its toll on Double’s business.Before the pandemic hit, Double was growing 20% month-over-month, whereas now things are much slower. “We see a lot of new clients coming to us because they wanted to hire someone full-time before the virus, and because of everything that's happening right now they don't want to make that decision,” Default says.
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