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Guillaume Moubeche: lemlist Founder, Email, LinkedIn and Bio (2026)

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Guillaume Moubeche founded lemlist in 2018 with $1,000 and built it past $60 million in ARR without raising a round. He handed the CEO job to Charles Tenot, remains the controlling shareholder, and runs the family office Clifton. He lists guillaume@lempire.co as his podcast’s contact.

Company overview

Company
LEMPIRE SAS (Paris, SIREN 823 475 082)
Industry
Software: sales engagement, cold email and outbound automation
Founded
2018 (lemlist launch); company created 2016
Headquarters
Paris, France
Revenue
Over $60M ARR, growing about 50% a year, profitable (Oct 2026, company figure)
Funding stage
Bootstrapped: no primary round; a 2021 secondary sale at a reported $150M valuation

Guillaume Moubeche at a glance

Fact

Detail

Role

Founder and controlling shareholder of lemlist’s company, lempire (Clifton); he moved from CEO to chairman (Small Team Big Scale)

lemlist’s CEO

Charles Tenot (lemlist)

Legal role

Manager of LEMG, the holding company that is lempire’s president since 2023 (Registry)

Now also

Founding partner of Clifton, a Paris family office investing in late-stage tech (Clifton); host of the BILLIONS podcast (BILLIONS)

Born

1991 (Registry)

Education

Chemical engineer, then a master’s in marketing, by his own account (Failory)

Before lemlist

Worked at P&G and Hermès; ran the lead-generation agency LeadGuru at Station F (Failory)

Book

The $150M Secret (2022) (AbeBooks)

Net worth

No published estimate; he says each founder took about $10 million home in 2021

Email

guillaume@lempire.co, listed by him as owner of his podcast feed

LinkedIn

Guillaume Moubeche

Guillaume Moubeche’s email address: how to reach him

The one address Moubeche has published himself is guillaume@lempire.co: he lists it as the owner contact of his BILLIONS podcast feed (BILLIONS) (checked November 8, 2026). It is a lempire address in a podcast directory field, not an invitation to pitch, so keep messages short. His family office, Clifton, lists team@clifton.partners (Clifton).

lemlist staff mostly use just their first name: {first}@lemlist.com or {first}@lempire.co, such as maya@lemlist.com for a fictional Maya Chen. Newer staff, and people who share a first name, often get the last initial: maya.c@. Moubeche’s LinkedIn accounts have been removed more than once, so his profile address changes; his own domain, guillaumemoubeche.com, redirects to his current profile (checked November 8, 2026). lemlist.com’s DMARC policy is quarantine, so mail that fakes a lemlist.com sender should land in spam (DNS checked November 8, 2026).

Channel

Address

Note

Email

guillaume@lempire.co

Owner contact of his podcast feed

Clifton

team@clifton.partners

His family office’s inbox

LinkedIn

Guillaume Moubeche

Where guillaumemoubeche.com redirects

YouTube

@GuillaumeMoubeche

Videos on bootstrapping and lemlist

lemlist email address pattern

lemlist staff mostly use just their first name: {first}@lemlist.com or {first}@lempire.co, such as maya@lemlist.com for a fictional Maya Chen. Newer staff, and people who share a first name, often get the last initial: maya.c@.

Format

Example (fictional name: Maya Chen)

Share of known addresses

Status

{first}@lemlist.com or {first}@lempire.co

maya@lemlist.com

24 of 37 staff addresses lemlist published (65%); 99% per LeadIQ

Current, standard

{first}.{l}@ (first name, dot, last initial)

maya.c@lempire.co

12 of 37 (32%), mostly people hired in 2026 or sharing a first name

Current, growing

{first}.{last}@

maya.chen@lempire.co

1 of 37

Rare

Before emailing any pattern-based address, run it through a verifier: a bounce hurts deliverability for every later send. All lemlist patterns and official inboxes are on the lemlist email format page.

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Career timeline

Date

Milestone

Source

Sep 2026

Described as having moved from CEO to chairman of lempire

Small Team Big Scale

Jan 5, 2026

Clifton Partners, his family office’s company, is registered in Paris

Registry

Dec 2025

Launches the BILLIONS podcast

BILLIONS

Oct 2025

lemlist buys Claap; Charles Tenot announces it as CEO

lemlist

Around 2024

Hands the CEO job to Charles Tenot

ColdIQ

Jan 1, 2023

His holding LEMG becomes lempire’s president

Registry

2022

Publishes The $150M Secret

AbeBooks

Oct 2021

Sells part of the company at a $150M valuation

CFNews

Mar 2020

lemlist reaches $1M ARR with ten people

Failory

Sep 12, 2019

Becomes president of LEMPIRE SAS

societe.com

Jan 2018

Starts lemlist with $1,000

Growth Unhinged

How Guillaume Moubeche built lemlist

Moubeche trained as a chemical engineer, worked at P&G and Hermès, and then took a master’s in marketing. He ran a lead-generation agency, LeadGuru, at the Station F incubator in Paris, and there teamed up with two engineers, François and Vianney Lecroart, who were leaving a product of their own (Failory). They launched lemlist in 2018, after he sold his LeadGuru shares (Failory); he says he put in his last $1,000 (Growth Unhinged).

lemlist never raised a funding round. In October 2021 the founders sold part of the company to a fund at a $150 million valuation (CFNews) (Growth Unhinged); “we each took a $10 million home,” he said (SaaS Club). The Lecroart brothers left soon after, “very unplanned”, he said (SaaS Club).

He later handed day-to-day management to Charles Tenot, who had joined as CFO and became CEO (ColdIQ). Moubeche remains lempire’s controlling shareholder and now invests in pre-IPO tech companies through Clifton, which he founded with Diane-Rose Dupré, a former UBS banker (Clifton); CFNews covered its move into secondaries in September 2026 (CFNews).

Guillaume Moubeche’s net worth

No rich list has published an estimate. The figures on record are his own: lemlist was valued at $150 million in the 2021 sale (Growth Unhinged), he says each founder took about $10 million home from it (SaaS Club), and he remains the controlling shareholder (Clifton) of a company that reports over $60 million of ARR (lemlist). We don’t estimate a figure.

In his own words

“Sales is equal timing times trust.”

— Guillaume Moubeche, December 13, 2024 (20VC)

“If they’re not paying … it means that the problem is not painful enough and that you should continue digging.”

— Guillaume Moubeche, December 13, 2024 (20VC)

“Money can buy like freedom and freedom is what I like the most.”

— Guillaume Moubeche, December 13, 2024 (20VC)

“Si je dois donner 2 conseils pour lancer son projet sans lever des fonds je dirais, 1) toujours penser à se payer en premier, et 2) recruter que quand ça fait mal !” (Two tips for starting without raising money: always pay yourself first, and only hire when it hurts.)

— Guillaume Moubeche, June 9, 2020 (Equity101)

“I always recommend hiring and firing fast.”

— Guillaume Moubeche, March 20, 2020 (Failory)

“I feel the more people doubt about what I can achieve the more motivated I am.”

— Guillaume Moubeche, August 1, 2024 (SaaS Club)

lemlist’s leadership

Person

Role

Source

Guillaume Moubeche

Founder and chairman; controlling shareholder through his holding, LEMG

Registry

Charles Tenot

CEO; previously COO

lemlist

Robin Bonduelle

Co-founder and CEO of Claap, bought by lemlist in 2025

Maddyness

Full company profile, including ARR and acquisitions: lemlist in 2026: revenue, valuation, funding, CEO.

Frequently asked questions

The French founder of lemlist, the cold-email software company, which he started in 2018 with $1,000 and grew past $60 million in ARR without raising a funding round. He now also runs the family office Clifton.

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