Alina Vandenberghe: Bio and recordings
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Alina's Story
👋 I’m Alina - Co-founder and Co-CEO at Chili Piper.
I now live in New York, but I was born in Romania before the end of communism. My family couldn’t afford to pay to support my education, so I held all sorts of odd jobs ever since I was 8. In high school, I was selling lipstick door to door to pay for my books.
Eventually, I became obsessed with computers and worked my way to a master in computer science.
Even though I worked for diverse industries and climbed the career ladder quite fast (from intern to SVP in publicly traded companies in 6 years), I was a miserable employee.
I am the technical co-founder at Chili Piper, and this is my first company.
I dreamed companies could be built differently—see our ethos here. I also believed I could use my tech skills to build better software for revenue teams. I could see that whenever I built an app (and did so in finance, media, health tech, and education), it would get massive adoption (I got 30M+ users every time, and some of my apps got keynoted by Steve Jobs).
Though I was happy with my achievements, I felt I could do a lot more.
I wanted to help with complexity at scale. Because most of the technically savvy people I knew went to solve problems for consumer apps, I knew I could be a lot more helpful when complexity is at its finest.
And what better challenge could I take upon myself than to solve how b2b companies operate? Most specifically, their revenue teams.
I have worked with many, and I saw how much they struggled. I had seen how software barely scratches the surface in supporting them in reaching their goals. And I also felt the pain directly in my journey as a salesperson in various roles. Including that of an SDR.
Because I knew what it's like to sell, and my husband (who is my co-founder) is the most brilliant sales/marketer, I knew it made sense that we would start this together. I might be biased, but 17 years of strong marriage (plus two babies) are confirming that I have chosen wisely.
You can read more about our platform here.
And about my story with my co-founder here.
Topics I’m glad to talk about
Things that I am passionate about talking about on LinkedIn and on podcasts :
- Culture. See more about unusual culture.
- Marketing. See more about how we approach marketing in this post.
- AI. See Saasopen talk below.
- Scaling up a saas company. See more about this topic here.
- Why don’t we see more women in Saas? More about this topic here.
- Building a brand. See more about it in this post and this post
Topics I avoid talking about:
- Zero - I haven’t found my limit in topics that i rather avoid.
Previous speaking engagements
- SaaStock
- Websummit
- Saasopen
- Saasiest
- Ascent
- Spryng
- Pavillion
- HotJar Hotsauce
- Saastock -6 Lessons Learned From Scaling The Next Tech Unicorn With Your Spouse
- + Interview by Salesroom as part of Saastock
- Southbound
- Women in Tech Global Conference
Podcasts where I joined as a guest
How Can You Make Decisions With Conviction? Featuring Alina Vandenberghe (Chili Piper)
Alina Vandenberghe, founder of Chili Piper & GipsyBot
Gândit în România - Alina Vandenberghe
Alina Vandenberghe went from intern to Millionaire because of Steve JObs
How Alina Vandenberghe grew Chili Piper's Annual Net Revenue Retention to 160%
Building a Gender-Blind Sales Culture with Chili Piper Cofounder Alina Vandenberghe
How Can Small Businesses Support Ukraine?
The Bigger You Go, The Higher The Cheque, The Better The Understanding: Alina & Nicolas Vandenberghe
Why 'Making It' Is More Than Just Having A Great Product, With Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder & Co-CEO Chili Piper
Every Day is a Product-Market Fit Day - Alina Vandenberghe
Chili Piper’s co-founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success
Interview With Alina Vandenberghe, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper
Stand Out in a Crowded Market - Chili Piper | Alina Vandenberghe
Building a billion dollar company from scretch// with Alina Vandenberghe
Orchestrating Full-Funnel Growth (w/ Alina Vandenberghe, Chili Piper)
Alina Vandenberghe
Revenue motions at scale (with Alina Vandenberghe) | The Revenue Formula Podcast
Alina Vandenberghe: Finding your strengths and excelling in your career
Building a Remote-First Unicorn Company: Challenges and Successes
I wish I could be superhuman, but I’m not. SaaS founder talk with Alina Vandenberghe
How we built a billion dollar startup from scratch | Alina Vandenberghe - Chili Piper
Recapping with Recapped: Chili Piper's Alina Vandenberghe
Path to Growth: Conversations with Leaders on Go-To-Market
Inside a $3 Billion Company: The Strategy, Culture, and Future with Co-Founder Alina
The Flow
Door-to-Door Lipstick Sales to Founder & CEO ft. Alina Vandenberghe | Revenue Reimagined
Chili Piper's Alina and Nicolas Vandenberghe on The Importance of Experimentation
How Chili Piper is becoming a billion dollar company with Alina Vandenberghe
The secret in revenue success - Alina Vandenberghe (Chili Piper)
How Culture Built a $30m ARR B2B SaaS
How Chili Piper’s CEO uses LinkedIn & Being a Woman in SaaS
Building a billion dollar brand
How to build a strong brand
Best of Growth Podcast
CNBC TechCheck + discusses how Chili Piper has supported over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees
CMO office hours (gated)
Billion-dollar SaaS culture with Alina Vandenberghe @Chili Piper
How Chili Piper Used AI to Hit $40m Revenue, Turn Profitable with Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe
Alina Vandenberghe (Chili Piper)-Another Romanian Founded SaaS Company on the Way to Unicorn Status
I spent the day with a $1B tech CEO
What Alina Vandenberghe would be doing if she was a $1m ARR startup
How to Build a High-Impact Marketing Strategy Through Culture, Social Media, and Measurement w/ Alina Vandenberghe
Meet Alina Vandenberghe: the $40m ARR SaaS CEO who invests in content! | Creator Journeys #06
You don't need de facto managers with Alina Vandenberghe, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Chili Piper
Why you should stop focusing on retention: Alina Vandenberghe, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Chili Piper
Traditional management is killing your retention with Co-founder & Co-CEO of Chili Piper
Using AI Agents to Build a Productive Revenue Org with Alina Vandenberghe, CEO at ChiliPiper
How a Communist Kid Became a $1B Tech CEO!
SPOTLIGHT: Co-CEO Alina Vandenberghe on Taking Over Marketing to Scale Demand at Chili Piper
This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO
Alina Vandenberghe on Building from the Ground Up: Charisma, Growth & The Glass Ceiling
Community-Driven Pipeline Strategies with Alina Vandenberghe, Founder & CEO at Chili Piper
Leading with Authenticity to Drive Execution Excellence
Wheel of Fortune: Sales & Marketing Edition
From Tech Geek in the Shadows to LinkedIn Powerhouse with Alina Vandenberghe
From Selling Her House to Building a Billion-Dollar Startup
From Zero to $1B: The Chili Piper Playbook for Product, Culture, and Pipeline, w/ Alina Vandenberghe
Global Talent & Community - Nicolas & Alina Vandenberghe - Chili Piper - Episode #45
Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper
The Climb: From Awareness to Conversion: Building Go-to-Market Precision that Scales
Building Pipeline Through Community First
From Immigrant to $1B Founder: Alina Vandenberghe on Building Chili Piper, AI, and Real CEO Life
Breaking Gender Barriers in Tech: Alina Vandenberghe's Inspiring Story
Want to Lead and Build? Start Your Own Business | Chat with Alina Vandenberghe of Chili Piper
From Building Concierge to Co-Founder & Co-CEO with Alina Vandenberghe | Revenue Career Ladder
Wynter Workshop: Humans + AI agents: The new GTM playbook
Create a No-Meetings Company with Decision Memos (Nicolas and Alina Vandenberghe, Chilipiper)
How I Hire with Alina Vandenberghe @ Co-CEO & Co-Founder — Chili Piper
My LinkedIn Influenced 50% of Chili Piper’s Open Pipeline | Alina Vandenberghe
From Bossy to CEO: Alina Vandenberghe's Journey of Empowering Women in Tech
GTM AI Podcast: Your Job Title is Becoming Obsolete and Why You're Refusing to See It
AI and the Future of B2B Marketing: Insights From Chili Piper’s Co-founder
She Broke Every GTM Rule And Built A $40M ARR Company
How to grow a startup from 0 to almost $1Bn by CEO Alina Vandenberghe of Chili Piper on Startup Wins
What Building a Near $1BN Company from Zero Taught Me About People w/ Alina Vandenberghe
How SaaS Founders Are Scaling GTM with AI: Standing Out and Scaling in Crowded SaaS Categories
SaaS is DEAD: How AI Agents & "Vibe Coding" Are Replacing Your Tools
Full Throttle Leaders - Alina Vandenberghe - Co-founder & co-CEO @Chili Piper
How Full Transparency Created a Team Nobody Can Poach with Alina Vandenberghe
She Built a Tech Empire While Raising 4 Kids… And It Made Her a Better CEO | Full Stack Moms
Why would I give up? with Alina Vandenberghe
How to Hire High-Impact Startup Talent: The Traits That Separate Multipliers from Mis-Hires
Podcasts I hosted
In the press
Front page on a Romanian high circulation newspaper.
Awards
Winners of the Momentum.io 2026 GTM AI Awards
CityBiz - SalesTech Founder Leaderboard Ranking Entering 2026
Top 100 Sales Queen to follow in 2026
100 Powerful Women in Sales – 2025
Top 25 B2B SaaS Founder List of 2024
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* If you are here because you googled my net worth: I'm happy to see that you are searching for inspiration on how to create more abundance. Note that you are questioning "net worth" - something i believed to be flawed the way we measure it currently
Money only measures one very narrow dimension of impact. And not even that well.
The abundance I care about is different. It’s love. Joy. Agency. Being fully alive without fear
That kind of worth doesn’t run out. That I have an abundance of. And i hope to inspire others to cultivate it too