Hold Tight

It is a pretty long way to the top, especially when you have to start from the bottom again. We had the privilege to sit with Tally and hear his incredible story, with a journey starting in an underprivileged suburban area north of Paris, that would soon lead him on a dangerous path.

A passionate child dreaming to go to space and loving cars from his young age, Tally was drawn early on to stealing the cars he could not afford and sell them to make a living as his family's situation was getting worse.

Hold Tight speaks to Shankar from Jetpack Data. He tells us about his life as a global citizen and also brings us up to speed with Data Visualization!

A true pioneer Jonathan Chester has been involved in the Bitcoin / Blockchain ecosystem since 2013 and has been contributing to Forbes on the subject since 2015. His company Bitwage was named a top 7 blockchain companies in the US and top 21 in the world.

In this episode Jonathan speaks about his hopes and scepticism around cryptocurrencies and the blockchain and lets us in on his predictions for 2018.

If you are not prepared to suffer, just give up ! says Paul, who has grown La Belle Vie with zero marketing in the last 3 years.

How did he go from 0 to more than 10,000 loyal customers buying their groceries and getting premium fresh products and more delivered in the next hour from La Belle Vie website ?

Have a listen to Paul's incredible story, experience and tips as we caught up with him a few days before announcing a €5.5M fund raise with investors including Station F founder Xavier Niel.

It’s a very different challenge teaching entrepreneurship to immigrants that come to Mexico City than to Guerrilla fighters who grew up in the jungle, who don’t know how to read or write and only know how to count money, guns and bullets says HJ as he explains what Collective Academy sets out to achieve.

Tom is applying to join Station F with Venture Academie, his hybrid model startup helping refugees invent their future in France. An inspired surfer, traveller and entrepreneur, who left Silicon Valley for Paris more than a decade ago and never went back, Tom also shares his views on social entrepreneurship, why he thinks Paris is today the epicenter of the sharing economy, his definition of happiness and many other inspiring tips for social entrepreneurs and change makers you won't want to miss !

Find out what it takes to make big changes in society Hear how Jean-Marc Guesné, a highly creative, inspired and successful social entrepreneur for 7 years in Asia was spotted by global social innovation network Ashoka and ended up with a top role in the organization.

In our discussion Jean-Marc not only shares the criterias Ashoka is looking at when selecting social initiatives to support, but also develops his own vision on how to effectively address some of the world's major challenges.

Back in her home town of Raqqa Syria, Rania dreamt of becoming a Doctor, but when Isis arrives she is forced to flee her home town, leaving her family and world behind. At 20 years old she decides to film her journey from Syria to Austria. She is cheated by smugglers, teargassed and beaten at the Macedonian border. She risks drowning in the Mediterranean, travelling in a boat meant to hold 15 people but stuffed with over 50.

If we have more systems and tools in place for migrant led innovation, then we should expect a boom in innovation since diversity in France is only growing.

After being kicked out of high school for selling electronic cigarettes, Martin Besson felt he had no future… But he knew that he could be useful to people if he could help them. So he decided to challenge himself to spend one week living on the Streets of Paris. Listen to find out what happens.