SlidePresenter is the leading video platform for employee-generated learning today. L&D and HR decision makers are increasingly recognizing the tremendous relevance and value of user-generated video content. Driven by changes in global work environments, including hybrid working, as well as a growing number of new employees who are used to learning with YouTube. That's why more than 650 international market leaders from all industries already trust SlidePresenter and its innovative solutions.

SlidePresenter is a fast-growing company with around 50 employees in Germany and around the world, which organically and profitably increases its MRR by around 50 percent from year to year. 

And SlidePresenter has big plans for the future.

This is because exponential technological progress will significantly increase the speed at which people need to absorb, understand and process information. People need to be provided with helpful, easy-to-consume knowledge at the exact moment and place they are faced with a problem.

Sebastian's vision is therefore to revolutionize the way people learn and share knowledge.

We show you how it all began. Take a journey through time with us to the beginnings of SlidePresenter.

We are in 2011. On the fourth floor of a Frankfurt apartment - directly above a Joey's pizzeria - Sebastian Walker spends his days advising companies on e-collaboration. More specifically: how to increase productivity by turning face-to-face meetings into virtual meetings using web-based tools.

Sebastian's vision back then was already: What if companies were able to preserve knowledge, share it with employees on demand, and thus make inefficient online or face-to-face meetings obsolete?

His mind started spinning and the idea of SlidePresenter was born. Soon the SlidePresenter team grew. As a result, five people were sitting in Sebastian's living room and huge piles of folders began to pile up around his bed. 

The next logical step followed in the form of the first SlidePresenter office in one of the lower floors of a high-rise building in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen.

Already in the first year SlidePresenter was able to record impressive successes and arouse the interest of investors. An important step in so many founding stories. In retrospect, however, it was not the right thing for SlidePresenter. The focus on conference and exhibition companies, which made the company successful at first, did not allow for a long-term scaling of the business model.

While today there are numerous communities of co-founders, advisors and investors, in 2012 Frankfurt was still pretty much a wasteland in terms of startups. Even today's startup standards, such as product-to-market fit and growth hacking, were largely unknown back then. 

Therefore, Sebastian's only option was to apply his own analytical and strategic methods, gathered from his consulting work, to find out what SlidePresenter was lacking - and why it was chasing companies and not the other way around.

With a new market positioning, Sebastian and SlidePresenter were ready to take off again in 2013. This time, however, not only in Germany, but also in the United States, thanks to the "German Silicon Valley Accelerator" funding program.

However, Sebastian didn't really get to enjoy the Californian sun or lifestyle. After all, two simultaneous market entries and a time difference of nine hours meant two full-time jobs and 23-hour workdays for him. Something that, in retrospect, was neither a good basis for SlidePresenter's sustainable growth nor particularly healthy for the company's founder. The only sensible decision: Return to the roots in Germany with SlidePresenter and fully dedicate himself to the local market.

After the initial difficulties, Sebastian was finally able to win the first customers for SlidePresenter, who in turn helped him to further promote and sell his software solution. In 2016, SlidePresenter became the very first German company to win the bsoco Award in the "Rapid Learning" category, followed by a "Best of" Industry Award nomination in 2016. In the same year, SlidePresenter quadrupled its monthly revenue thanks to continuous customer growth and high capital efficiency.

From then on, SlidePresenter only went upwards - in the truest sense of the word, because new office space was rented a few floors above the small office from the early days.

The company grew, not only spatially, but also in terms of employees, customers and sales. In addition, there were awards such as another "Best of" at the Industry Award 2017 as well as numerous eLearning awards over the years.