Michel van Velde
- Founder and CEO at One Shoe
GetLatka interview
How One Shoe Grew to About $2.5M in Revenue by 2012 and Built a 45-Person Digital Agency (Interview with Founder and CEO Michel van Velde)
Michel van Velde (Founder and CEO of One Shoe) spoke to Nathan Latka on May 4, 2021.
One Shoe figures from the interview
- Revenue (first year) (2006)
- About $200K to $300K
- Revenue (2012)
- About $2.5M
- Customers served (2020)
- 50
- Team size (2020)
- 45
- Engineers (2021)
- 25
“I started with two secondhand laptops. I registered myself at the trade register and that evening, my wife gave a party at home and she said, okay, Mike, it is really interesting that you have a company, but do not give your business cards to every people, to all my friends.”
“Revenue in first year was about $200K to $300K.”
“In 2012, I decided to join a competition for the fastest growing company The Netherlands and in Europe, and we became number 25 in terms of fastest growing companies in The Netherlands.”