A new breed of CTO
The Family - July 2019
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
● Inception: Nov. 2013.
● German-French company
● Headquarters in Berlin and Paris, 30 offices in
France, 5 in Germany.
● 850 employees today
● Raised 230M€ in investment. Currently
valued @ 1B€ (March 2019)
2
Doctolib is a German-French company with 850
people and a long-term project (July 2019)
Key Facts Our investors
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
Our mission: make our healthcare system more
human, efficient and connected
3
Improve the patient access to
healthcare and patient experience
Create the medical practices and
the hospitals of the future
1 2
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
4
Doctolib is the largest ehealth service in Europe
EXPERIENCENETWORK
90,000
healthcare
professionals
20,000,000
Patient accounts
SERVICE
850
staff
VISIBILITY
35,000,000
visits per month
Doctolib targets 2 kind of users: practitioners &
patients
A new generation of scheduling
system for practices and hospitals
● Booking optimization
● Easy patient communication
● Practitioners coordination
An online service for patients
● Find a nearby health practitioner / hospital
● Book doctor appointments online 24/7
● Manage medical bookings online
Doctolib – Strictly confidential
Strong growth since inception
6
Who’s this guy?
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
A bit about myself
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Intl’
Experience
VC, PE, IPO,
hypergrowth,
slowdown, M&As
From pure tech
focus to global
operations scope
44y old
Engineer &
Entrepreneur
Why CTO Enablers
are needed?
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
The typical roles boundaries...
10
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
The “CTO Enabler” equation
11
Much bigger impact
on overall results
Technology Biz model Biz processes
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
Technology = Overall enabler the business
Someone needs to be able to connect the dots.
Who’s better than the CTO to understand and drive it ?
Much easier for him/her to step beyond
the boundary than the other way around.
If not, who then?
12
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
Key business processes to master as CTO
● Product prioritization
● Customer journey from sales to support
● Sales/Marketing and levers to accelerate those
● Finance/HR and automation potential
● Make/Buy/Partner strategies for product/int’l expansion
13
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
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Data & Business Scale
Marketing
Lead Generation
Data Analytics
Product & dev
Doctor Marketing
Marketing
Customer Engag.
Data Analytics
Product & dev
Scale Cust. Engag.
Operations
Excellence
Data Analytics
Product & dev
Scale OPS processes
Global business
teams
Sales Strategy Data Analytics
Product & dev
Scale Sales processes
Product & dev
Scale Onboarding
Provide acceleration
services to each global
teams*:
- Data Analytics
- Product management
- Development
→ Align objectives &
destroy them
*DBS also provides data analytics for Product teams, and could prioritize other missions in the future to support other global teams such as Finance/ People
(DBS) Data & Business Scale @ Doctolib
Doctolib – Strictement confidentiel
How to make the transition from CTO to
‘CTO-enabler’ ?
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1. Break the paragdims of CTO as a techy-only
2. Dare to get into the dark sciences of
Sales/Marketing/Operations
3. Educate yourselves in financial key concepts
4. Apply your strong engineering mindset to those
5. Understand that it is your job (and more fun!)
6. Diffuse this mindset within your own team
Questions
welcome!

A new breed of CTO - Philippe Vimard, CTO & COO at Doctolib

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    A new breedof CTO The Family - July 2019
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel ● Inception: Nov. 2013. ● German-French company ● Headquarters in Berlin and Paris, 30 offices in France, 5 in Germany. ● 850 employees today ● Raised 230M€ in investment. Currently valued @ 1B€ (March 2019) 2 Doctolib is a German-French company with 850 people and a long-term project (July 2019) Key Facts Our investors
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel Our mission: make our healthcare system more human, efficient and connected 3 Improve the patient access to healthcare and patient experience Create the medical practices and the hospitals of the future 1 2
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel 4 Doctolib is the largest ehealth service in Europe EXPERIENCENETWORK 90,000 healthcare professionals 20,000,000 Patient accounts SERVICE 850 staff VISIBILITY 35,000,000 visits per month
  • 5.
    Doctolib targets 2kind of users: practitioners & patients A new generation of scheduling system for practices and hospitals ● Booking optimization ● Easy patient communication ● Practitioners coordination An online service for patients ● Find a nearby health practitioner / hospital ● Book doctor appointments online 24/7 ● Manage medical bookings online
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    Doctolib – Strictlyconfidential Strong growth since inception 6
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel A bit about myself 8 Intl’ Experience VC, PE, IPO, hypergrowth, slowdown, M&As From pure tech focus to global operations scope 44y old Engineer & Entrepreneur
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel The typical roles boundaries... 10
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel The “CTO Enabler” equation 11 Much bigger impact on overall results Technology Biz model Biz processes
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel Technology = Overall enabler the business Someone needs to be able to connect the dots. Who’s better than the CTO to understand and drive it ? Much easier for him/her to step beyond the boundary than the other way around. If not, who then? 12
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel Key business processes to master as CTO ● Product prioritization ● Customer journey from sales to support ● Sales/Marketing and levers to accelerate those ● Finance/HR and automation potential ● Make/Buy/Partner strategies for product/int’l expansion 13
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel 14 Data & Business Scale Marketing Lead Generation Data Analytics Product & dev Doctor Marketing Marketing Customer Engag. Data Analytics Product & dev Scale Cust. Engag. Operations Excellence Data Analytics Product & dev Scale OPS processes Global business teams Sales Strategy Data Analytics Product & dev Scale Sales processes Product & dev Scale Onboarding Provide acceleration services to each global teams*: - Data Analytics - Product management - Development → Align objectives & destroy them *DBS also provides data analytics for Product teams, and could prioritize other missions in the future to support other global teams such as Finance/ People (DBS) Data & Business Scale @ Doctolib
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    Doctolib – Strictementconfidentiel How to make the transition from CTO to ‘CTO-enabler’ ? 15 1. Break the paragdims of CTO as a techy-only 2. Dare to get into the dark sciences of Sales/Marketing/Operations 3. Educate yourselves in financial key concepts 4. Apply your strong engineering mindset to those 5. Understand that it is your job (and more fun!) 6. Diffuse this mindset within your own team
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