EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 83: Joaquin Cuenca, Co-founder & CEO of Freepik

Antonio L. Escarzaga • 29 8 月, 2024 9:19 下午 • All posts • 阅读 2

In this episode, we overtake Joaquín Cuenca, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Freepik. With his vibrant management and innovative vision, Joaquín has actually driven Freepik’s impressive development because its beginning in 2010. Based in Malaga, Spain, Freepik has actually become an international giant in the electronic web content area, flaunting an abundant database of over a million visuals sources.

Under the umbrella of Freepik, they provide world-leading layout and creative thinking devices such as Flaticon, Iconfinder, Slidesgo, Videvo, and Wepik. The company, which has actually been largely bootstrapped, was additionally provided in the Financial Times as one of the “Fastest Expanding European Firms” and has actually expanded its group to concerning 600 workers and greater than 52,000 signed up factors. In 2023, they got the contending image market EyeEm, increasing their growth right into the United States.

Joaquín shares the trip of structure Freepik and bootstrapping the firm to a $300 million evaluation. He reviews the difficult choices made to maintain expanding without increasing funding and stresses the significance of remaining concentrated on customers and offering them with a beginning factor for their creative thinking. Joaquin additionally discusses the influence of AI on the firm, the requirement to adjust to the transforming landscape of layout devices, shares Freepik’s vision to assist individuals produce terrific layouts quicker, and a lot more.

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Trick Takeaways

When bootstrapping a firm preparing to make difficult choices and remaining concentrated on customer demands is a must.
AI has actually been a complete video game changer for boosting creative thinking and enhancing layout procedures.
The most significant advancement in Freepik’s background was when they transformed from being an internet search engine for web content to organizing the web content themselves.

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