{"id":21836,"date":"2021-06-14T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/ep-17-dany-papineau-wechalet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:49:25","slug":"ep-17-dany-papineau-wechalet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/ep-17-dany-papineau-wechalet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 17 &#8211; Dany Papineau &#8211; WeChalet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KRWRufUiCo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s ambitions.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3iIgKZ9\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3H5sz7L\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, and !<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out our guest here:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WEBSITE: https:\/\/wechalet.com\/<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FACEBOOK: https: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wechalet\">\/\/www.facebook.com\/wechalet<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INSTAGRAM: https: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/We_Chalet\">\/\/www.instagram.com\/We_Chalet<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LINKEDIN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/wechalet\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/wechalet\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you hungry for success? Make your dreams come true with <a href=\"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/\">Studios Machiavel<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timeline &#8211; Pride, Tax and Festivity. A Frog conquers AirBnB. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0:00 &#8211; Introduction<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:00 &#8211; Presentation of WeChalet, a platform for booking properties in kind<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2:00 &#8211; What kind of bread are you, Dany Papineau?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Section 1 &#8211; Earning a Living &#8211; 3:00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3:00 &#8211; Film debut with 2 Frogs in the West<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5:00 &#8211; A first entrepreneurial project<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7:00 &#8211; Startup vs Film<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8:30 &#8211; The craze for Western Canada<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10:00 &#8211; Half a million dollar film&#8217;s financial hole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13:00 &#8211; Getting started on the AirBnb platform<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14:45 &#8211; AirBnbsecrets.com &#8211; His online course!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4:00 PM &#8211; Scandal of the $200k per year with taxation<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20:00 &#8211; The origins of WeChalet<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23:40 &#8211; Investment by Lightspeed&#8217;s Dax DaSilva<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2nd section &#8211; Butter money &#8211; 26:00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">26:30 &#8211; The LGBTQ+ community in business<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">32:00 &#8211; Papineau Road in the Eastern Townships<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>35:00 &#8211; The history of cottages up to 150k today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">37:00 &#8211; Exploding property prices<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>38:00 &#8211; The growth of wilderness travel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>39:00 &#8211; Automation for WeChalet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">45:00 &#8211; 500% growth for WeChalet<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Section 3 &#8211; A Lot of Work Ahead &#8211; 45:30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">46:00 &#8211; Promotion with Labatt on 850k cases of Bud Light<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">48:00 &#8211; AirBnb lets 250 people go, WeChalet gets some back<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">53:00 &#8211; English name for WeChalet<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">56:00 &#8211; Follow your inner voice, be passionate<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A production by Machiavel Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[449,451,457,456,427,450],"class_list":["post-21836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-born-for-big-bread-podcast","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-mtl-en","tag-podcast-en-2","tag-podcast-en","tag-quebec-en","tag-quebecinc-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28716,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/28716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machiavel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}