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1991 → 2009 — Growing up into adulthood, sort of

Born in the suburbs of Paris 🇫🇷

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 🤓

Also traveled quite a bit, to Madagascar 🇲🇬 and Germany 🇩🇪 to visit family, plus school and friends’ trips to Rome 🇮🇹 and London 🇬🇧

At 16, parents divorced, finished high school in a boarding school in Normandy.

2009 → 2011 — Going through some hardcore times

Moved to Paris and enrolled in prep courses for elite business schools — 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 🇫🇷, ranked 6th in France.

Celebrated by road-tripping with friends across the USA 🇺🇸, from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, then on to New York City 🗽

2012 → 2013 — Veering off the path I had planned for myself

TBD

2014 → mid 2015 — First startup, failed

Launched WeHives, an edTech startup, with a friend, Thomas.

Failed without finding success.

Learned a st ton.**

End 2015 — Learning how to code..

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.

2016 — .. changed my life

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 🇳🇱, Nantes 🇫🇷, Brussels 🇧🇪, Copenhagen 🇩🇰, and Marseille 🇫🇷.

Also started working as a digital nomad, living in new places (Berlin 🇩🇪, Ireland 🇮🇪).

Fell in love with Cécile, as we met teaching together in Amsterdam.

2017 — Pushing forward with my new life

Kept freelancing as a developper.

Kept teaching at Le Wagon together with Cécile (Nantes 🇫🇷, Lyon 🇫🇷, Amsterdam 🇳🇱, Tokyo 🇯🇵).

Kept traveling around as a digital nomad with Cécile (Budapest 🇭🇺, Lisbon 🇵🇹).

Began coaching Le Wagon alumni on their paths after graduation, in both tech and business.

2018 — Getting back to the startup game

Kept freelancing.

Kept teaching at Le Wagon (Nantes 🇫🇷, Amsterdam 🇳🇱)

Kept traveling around as a digital nomad (Cape Town 🇿🇦, Marrakech 🇲🇦, Poland 🇵🇱)

Started working as CTO for an early stage startup based in Paris, Koudetat, born out of the 🇫🇷 incubator The Family, alongside, Valentin & Thomas, among others.

2019 — Pushing forward with the startup game

Kept freelancing.

Kept teaching at Le Wagon (Nantes 🇫🇷, Amsterdam 🇳🇱).

Kept traveling around as a digital nomad (Barcelona 🇪🇸).

Joined Pierre, Le Wagon franchisee in Nantes, as an operational partner & minority shareholder, alongside Cécile. My focus: local awareness, marketing & partnerships.

Still CTOing at Koudetat.