For this seventeenth episode, we welcome Dany Papineau of WeChalet, an in-kind property booking platform, to discuss his past tax woes with AirBnb, the LGBTQ+ business community, the Papineau family in the Eastern Townships and WeChalet’s ambitions.
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WEBSITE: https://wechalet.com/
FACEBOOK: https: //www.facebook.com/wechalet
INSTAGRAM: https: //www.instagram.com/We_Chalet
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wechalet/
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Timeline – Pride, Tax and Festivity. A Frog conquers AirBnB.
0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – Presentation of WeChalet, a platform for booking properties in kind
2:00 – What kind of bread are you, Dany Papineau?
Section 1 – Earning a Living – 3:00
3:00 – Film debut with 2 Frogs in the West
5:00 – A first entrepreneurial project
7:00 – Startup vs Film
8:30 – The craze for Western Canada
10:00 – Half a million dollar film’s financial hole
13:00 – Getting started on the AirBnb platform
14:45 – AirBnbsecrets.com – His online course!
4:00 PM – Scandal of the $200k per year with taxation
20:00 – The origins of WeChalet
23:40 – Investment by Lightspeed’s Dax DaSilva
2nd section – Butter money – 26:00
26:30 – The LGBTQ+ community in business
32:00 – Papineau Road in the Eastern Townships
35:00 – The history of cottages up to 150k today
37:00 – Exploding property prices
38:00 – The growth of wilderness travel
39:00 – Automation for WeChalet
45:00 – 500% growth for WeChalet
Section 3 – A Lot of Work Ahead – 45:30
46:00 – Promotion with Labatt on 850k cases of Bud Light
48:00 – AirBnb lets 250 people go, WeChalet gets some back
53:00 – English name for WeChalet
56:00 – Follow your inner voice, be passionate
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