Athe end of 2019 I had the chance to participate to Unleash as a “ mentor”. Unleash is an amazing program gathering hundreds of social entrepreneurs building social startups in a week, to address the Sustainable Development Goals. At this event something became clear, the tools used to support for…

Intro : What will democracy look like in 200 years? While solid, the foundations of our democracies were conceived 200 years ago with smaller nations in mind (2.5M people living in 1776 in the US Colonies / 9M voters in France in 1848 / 21.4M voters in 1914 in England) It is obvious that 200 years later with 9 billion…

2033, it’s 11pm Joan is walking in the streets of a modern metropole , she’s on her way to a late concert. Putting her mobile AR glasses on she easily finds her way while reading about history her favorite subjects; especially since the recent debates and tensions rising. She loves…

A case for long term investment vehicles — The world moral values are shifting every 30 years Sorry to my dear business school teachers, but let’s be frank, to most people Economy is as boring as the people who talk about it and so are politicians, wall street traders, and large corporations. On the other side of the spectrum startups and younger ventures are the future and…

Have you ever thought about what it would feel like to be part of the founding team of a high growth venture like Facebook or Starbucks? Now, imagine building something so big, then ‘exiting’ by giving it away to its community without asking for anything in exchange. Well, this is…

I gave a talk this week to Corporate leaders during the NRF in NYC. Addressing a hot subject for the corporate world: How to go beyond innovation departments and build efficient startups? I introduced a new framework to help corporations think their startup strategy: Pushing vs Pulling Startups. The Corporate Startup Forces: Pull and Push

As I’m flying back to France a couple of days after the terrible attacks that killed so many innocents in Paris and Beirut, I can’t stop thinking on how much education and business is the source of peace. …

I’m an admirer, and I guess preacher of what individual freedom and entrepreneurship can accomplish. Part of my work is to study some academic and semi-academic papers and books, but at the end of the day social science and economics still have an apparent lack of predictivity through modelling. The…

It’s Thursday night in Brooklyn; I’m working late on my new startup as Europe is waking up. My mailbox is filled with meeting requests and articles to read; a cup of tea in my hand I review my pipelines of customers. …