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Born in the suburbs of Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Spent a happy childhood in the countryside, surrounded by cereal fields and a massive garden full of fruit trees.
Loved school, enjoyed the heck out of all kinds of activities: fencing, basketball, swimming, tennis, chess, airplane modeling, reading tons of books, video games ๐ค
Also traveled quite a bit, to Madagascar ๐ฒ๐ฌย and Germany ๐ฉ๐ช to visit family, plus school and friendsโ trips to Rome ๐ฎ๐นย and London ๐ฌ๐ง
At 16, parents divorced, finished high school in a boarding school in Normandy.
Moved to Paris and enrolled in prep courses for elite business schools โ one of the most competitive post-graduation tracks in France.
Barely 20yo, the randomness of life hit my family hard: we lost my dad from a heart attack.
Spent the next one year and half in deep introspection. Things in me had changed, forever.
Still, I pushed through and repeated my final year to secure a spot at Audencia in Nantes ๐ซ๐ท, ranked 6th in France.
Celebrated by road-tripping with friends across the USA ๐บ๐ธ, from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, then on to New York City ๐ฝ
TBD
Launched WeHives, an edTech startup, with a friend, Thomas.
Failed without finding success.
Learned a st ton.**
Joined batch #15
at Le Wagon Paris, a Ruby on Rails bootcamp.
Determined to build a new startup, but this time with the skills to build the software myself.
Fell in love with coding. Started freelancing as a developer after graduating.
Chose to pursue opportunities as they came, instead of jumping straight back into startups.
Began traveling around the world, helping new Le Wagon franchisees with the teaching side of business in cities like Amsterdam ๐ณ๐ฑ, Nantes ๐ซ๐ท, Brussels ๐ง๐ช, Copenhagen ๐ฉ๐ฐ, and Marseille ๐ซ๐ท.
Also started working as a digital nomad, living in new places (Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช, Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช).
Fell in love with Cรฉcile, as we met teaching together in Amsterdam.
Kept freelancing as a developper.
Kept teaching at Le Wagon together with Cรฉcile (Nantes ๐ซ๐ท, Lyon ๐ซ๐ท, Amsterdam ๐ณ๐ฑ, Tokyo ๐ฏ๐ต).
Kept traveling around as a digital nomad with Cรฉcile (Budapest ๐ญ๐บ, Lisbon ๐ต๐น).
Began coaching Le Wagon alumni on their paths after graduation, in both tech and business.
Kept freelancing.
Kept teaching at Le Wagon (Nantes ๐ซ๐ท, Amsterdam ๐ณ๐ฑ)
Kept traveling around as a digital nomad (Cape Town ๐ฟ๐ฆ, Marrakech ๐ฒ๐ฆ, Poland ๐ต๐ฑ)
Started working as CTO for an early stage startup based in Paris, Koudetat, born out of the ๐ซ๐ทย incubator The Family, alongside, Valentin & Thomas, among others.
Kept freelancing.
Kept teaching at Le Wagon (Nantes ๐ซ๐ท, Amsterdam ๐ณ๐ฑ).
Kept traveling around as a digital nomad (Barcelona ๐ช๐ธ).
Joined Pierre, Le Wagon franchisee in Nantes, as an operational partner & minority shareholder, alongside Cรฉcile. My focus: local awareness, marketing & partnerships.
Still CTOing at Koudetat.