Overview
Pierre-Olivier Danhaive is founder and CEO of Verbolia, an Enghien-based AI-assisted SEO platform for e-commerce businesses.
Career history
In the news
- Do stock option plans really help retain employees? That's one of the questions we'll explore next Tuesday at The POD. When Pierre-Olivier Danhaive introduced Verbolia's first warrant plan in 2021, retaining key employees was one of his main motivations. More than four years later, his experience raises some interesting questions. Some employees have left despite having warrants, new people have joined, and the plan has evolved through several rounds. So what should companies really consider before introducing such a plan? On
- Verbolia is officially joining La Maison des Startups LVMH. A few days ago, Pierre-Olivier Danhaive and Louis Duchêne were in Paris to make it official. After a first collaboration with Christian Dior Couture, our relationship with the LVMH group is taking the next step: Verbolia is now a member of La Maison des Startups LVMH. What does that mean in practice? We’ll help the group’s Maisons make their catalogs visible on Google, ChatGPT and Gemini, by creating landing pages at scale, with no compromise on brand experience. In short:
- You're considering a stock option plan for your team. But where do you actually start? Who should benefit? How do you determine the company's valuation? What about vesting, employees leaving, or future financing rounds? These are some of the questions that founders and business leaders need to address when setting up an employee participation plan. And they're exactly the kind of questions that Françoise Platteborse, Founder & CEO of BlueTrees, has been helping Belgian companies navigate for over 20 years. On November 10,
- Want to share value with your team, but not sure how to make it work in practice? In January 2021, Pierre-Olivier Danhaive and his co-founder introduced Verbolia’s first warrant plan. Verbolia is a Belgian SaaS company specialising in technology for large e-commerce websites. Since its launch, Pierre-Olivier has grown the company from 0 to €5M in recurring revenue, without raising external capital. Their initial motivation for introducing the plan was clear: retain key people, reward their contribution and give them the
- 𝟵𝟱𝘅 𝗥𝗢𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗘𝗢 & 𝗚𝗘𝗢 🚀 That’s the 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗻 performance our CEO, Pierre-Olivier Danhaive, shared at the 𝗚𝗘𝗢 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Alongside other speakers and real-world case studies, one thing became clear: Search isn’t dying. It’s evolving. AI engines are reshaping how people discover brands, products and answers. Visibility is no longer just about ranking #1 on Google. It’s about being cited, understood and recommended across AI results 🤖 Key takeaways: → SEO and GEO
- 𝗗𝗼 𝗙𝗔𝗤𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗘𝗢 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲? We tested it. In this video, Pierre-Olivier Danhaive, CEO of Verbolia, explains how we analyzed 15,000 Vpage pages to measure the real impact of FAQs on AI bot visits and source usage. 👉The result: pages with FAQs were more likely to be picked up and used by AI engines. A concrete, data-backed look at what actually moves the needle in GEO.
- 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲? 🔁 You bid to get traffic. Your competitors bid too. Costs go up. And every month, you end up paying more to capture the same demand. For e-commerce teams, this raises a real question: How can you reduce dependency on paid traffic without losing visibility? 🎥In this video, Pierre-Olivier Danhaive, CEO of Verbolia, shares why organic search can help break the cycle.
- 𝗚𝗘𝗢 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘄. AI search still depends on the same core principle: relevant content that can be found, read and used. 🎙️In this video, Pierre-Olivier Danhaive, CEO of Verbolia, explains why query fan-out is essentially long-tail search at scale. And why 𝗩𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 has been helping major e-commerce brands do exactly that for years.
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