Alexandre is the co-founder of Joko, amongst the top France's fintech scale-ups with offices in NYC, started in 2018 to revolutionise how retailers reward consumers for their spending. It was co-founded by Nicolas Salat-Baroux, Xavier Starkloff, and Alexandre Hollocou. The Joko app, available for free on the Google Play Store and App Store, has since gained popularity in France, with over 5 millon users and over €30b in transaction volume. Joko is profitable.

Alexandre is a well-known fintech entrepreneur who is based in Paris and spends time in New York with his co-founders. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique and co-founded Joko in 2018 with Nicolas Salat-Baroux and Xavier Starkloff.

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Yann is the co-founder of probabl: and former CEO of Scaleway, France's largest hosting internet hosting company, part of Iliad Group. Probabl: is a spin-off of Inria, France's largest research lab.

Yann is a well-known technology entrepreneur who spent years in Silicon Valley. Probabl: is editing sci-kit learn at scale, with over 2b downloads, and is a spin-off from Inria. It recently raised €13m led by Serena Capital.

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Alexandre Grux is CPO of DiliTrust, one of Europe's largest SaaS legaltech companies, present in over 60 countries and 2500+ clients, after he sold his company (Hyperlex) to Dilitrust.

Alexandre undertook France, and probably Europe's most technical engineering background: the famous MVA, from university ENS. We talk to Alexandre about cutting edge at DiliTrust that he's implementing (neural networks, LLMs, foundation models) and that he pioneered already years ago while building Hyperlex (contract drafting using deep-learning).

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Ed is founder of Memrise, one of the world's most prominent language apps. He is also the co-founder of Sonic Sphere, and more recently, edtech startup MindMax Labs. He is also World Master of Memory.

We talk to Ed about his beginnings starting Memrise, the role of memory, and LLMs in the context of his new edtech startup.

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Stephane is founder of JiminiAI, one of France's most promising legaltech startups. This episode is in French.

We talk to Stéphane about his beginnings starting Jimini AI almost straight out of Ecole Polytechique, his background as an engineer, the future of legaltech, and how Jimini AI is innovating in cutting edge research and drafting of legal documents.

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Andrea is founder of Eskimoz, one of the largest digital agencies in France and in Europe more widely. This episode is in French.

We talk to Andrea about his beginnings starting Eskimoz almost straight out of French business school, his entrepreneurial drive, data science applied to marketing, and the future of AI in marketing.

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Charles Gorintin is cofounder of Alan and Mistral, 2 of France's largest billion-$ businesses. This episode is in French.

Charles is cofounder of Alan, alongisde Jean-Charles Samuelian. We talk to Charles about his begininings, his studies at ENS and Stanford, and how he went on to start 2 of the largest businesses, with a focus on Alan. Charles is also a keen chess-player in his free time.

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In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Charles Gorintin about:

1) Charles' background, Franco-US education and time spent at Meta in the US

2) Alan's huge traction and fundraising rounds

3) Alan's product launches over time and how they prioritised things

4) Charles' use of AI and LLMs and internal techstack built

5) Charles' 3 favourite books and startups (besides Alan and Mistral!)

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Ori Pekelman is one of the cofounders of Platform.sh, cloud-hosting platform that helps companies build, run and scale their apps and websites. This episode is in French.

Ori is cofounder of Platform.sh, alongside Damien Tournoud and Frederic Plais. Platform.sh simplifies cloud development and supports companies in scaling fleets of applications.

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In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Ori Pekelman about:

1) Ori's background, beginnings of Platform.sh

1'26: Intro to Platform.sh 2'45: How Ori met his cofounders, over 17 years ago

2) Platform.sh's business model

8'00: Platform.sh vs Heroku vs Vercel 12'00: Major considerations in infrastructure-as-code

3) Techstack of Platform.sh

26'00: Deployments in Python 36'00: React vs PhP 4) Datacenters and the environment

39'00: Reduction of carbon emissions 40'20: Main considerations for data centres

5) Three favourite books and startups

1'08: Probable Listen to find out more

Marc Henri Gires is one of the cofounders of Defacto, fintech leader in France for B2B financing. It offers short-term financing for SMEs with an API-first approach. This episode is in French.

Marco is cofounder of Defacto. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique and spent many years in the US before returning to France to co-found Defacto. Defacto solves companies' working capital requirements, offering business the ability to repay its suppliers early and automate payments.

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In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with March Henri about: 1) The beginnings of Defacto and core founder traits 2) Defacto's value proposition and positioning within B2B fintech 3) Defacto's techstack 4) Three favourite books and startups Listen to find out more

Louis Chatriot is CEO of Alma, fintech leader in France of BNPL, having raised Series C by top investors (Northzone, Headline etc.) This episode is in French.

Louis is CEO at Alma, the fintech leader in France of BNPL. Louis talks about his background at Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford, meeting his cofounder, key painpoints and triggers in BNPL, and technical tech stack at Alma (details below). Prior to founding Alma, Louis was former GM of Stripe in Italy.

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In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Louis Chatriot about: 1) The beginnings of Alma and core founder traits - his background at Ecole Polytechnique//Stanford - Alma's 'earned secret' of becoming a leader in a sector which is inherently less 'sexy' (9'00) - how Louis met his cofounder & key traits in founders (12'00) - the importance of being a good salesperson (23'00) 2) Alma's value proposition and positioning within fintech - triggers of debt and overspending (30'00) - fraud prevention and modelling fraud scores (40'00) 3) Alma's techstack - Supervised learning and classification for insurance and fraud prevention (46'00) - Data drift (48'00) - Databases (61'00): PostGres vs MongoDB - Techstack (67'00): React, Python, Java pros and cons 4) Three favourite books and startups Listen to find out more