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Be @Xavier75:
> get a computer at 15, start hacking
> drop out of school at 19
> build adult chat services on Minitel
> become a millionaire by 24
> invest in France's first ISP (Worldnet)
> sell for €30M right before the dot-com crash
> disrupt French telecom with €2/mo mobile plan
> take your company public
> become a billionaire
> spend €70M building 42, a free coding school
> invest €250M to build Station F
> Station F becomes world's biggest startup campus
> co-found Kima Ventures
> invest in 100+ startups/year, seed 17 unicorns
> buy Monaco Telecom for $445M
> nuy Orange Switzerland for $2.7B
> rebrand to Salt
> sell 90% of Salt's towers for $800M to Cellnex
> acquire 7+ of biggest French media
> launch Kyutai, a nonprofit AI lab (€300M budget)
> back Mistral AI as a seed investor
> join the boards of KKR and ByteDance
> net worth: $14B+
absolute French tech legend 🐐


Florian Darroman@floriandarroman
This guy is our French Elon Musk (even cooler than Elon, I would say) He just released a new mobile service that covers all of these red countries (doesn't mean they're communists) with unlimited data for €19.90/mo. Now I can just use my French number in Indonesia 🫶
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