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Life, recent โ†’ old

1991 โ†’ 2009 โ€” Growing up into adulthood, sort of

Born in the suburbs of Paris ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

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 ๐Ÿค“

Also traveled quite a bit, to Madagascar ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฌย and Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช to visit family, plus school and friendsโ€™ trips to Rome ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นย and London ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

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

2009 โ†’ 2011 โ€” Going through some hardcore times

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 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, ranked 6th in France.

Celebrated by road-tripping with friends across the USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, then on to New York City ๐Ÿ—ฝ

2012 โ†’ 2013 โ€” Veering off the path I had planned for myself

TBD

2014 โ†’ mid 2015 โ€” First startup, failed

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

Failed without finding success.

Learned a st ton.**

End 2015 โ€” 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 โ€” .. 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 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, Nantes ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, Brussels ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช, Copenhagen ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ, and Marseille ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท.

Also started working as a digital nomad, living in new places (Berlin ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช, Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช).

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

2017 โ€” Pushing forward with my new life

Kept freelancing as a developper.

Kept teaching at Le Wagon together with Cรฉcile (Nantes ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, Lyon ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, Amsterdam ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, Tokyo ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต).

Kept traveling around as a digital nomad with Cรฉcile (Budapest ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ, Lisbon ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น).

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

2018 โ€” Getting back to the startup game

Kept freelancing.

Kept teaching at Le Wagon (Nantes ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, Amsterdam ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ)

Kept traveling around as a digital nomad (Cape Town ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, Marrakech ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, Poland ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ)

Started working as CTO for an early stage startup based in Paris, Koudetat, born out of the ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทย incubator The Family, alongside, Valentin & Thomas, among others.

2019 โ€” Pushing forward with the startup game

Kept freelancing.

Kept teaching at Le Wagon (Nantes ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, Amsterdam ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ).

Kept traveling around as a digital nomad (Barcelona ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ).

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.