🔷 The vibe (+1 if there’s a CMO with a skateboard)
🔺 By the guys’ profiles (if there are women, forget it)
❎ I only look at the BP, the business plan (and knock 20% off every cell for the worst case)
How do you spot a good startup?
🔺 It can land a nice exit at the next round and pick up grants in the meantime
🔷 There’s a Switch in the break room (and organic coffee for the Nespresso)
🟡 By the number of times it’s been in Maddyness, the French startup news site
❎ It’s profitable
What’s the best metric for measuring a startup’s performance?
❎ EBITDA
🟡 The dosh raised
🔷 MRR, ARR, RPR, UDR, RRRrrrrr!
🔺 I don’t think there’s such a thing as a good or a bad metric. Me, if I had to sum up my life today with you, I’d say it’s about encounters, first and foremost. People who reached out a hand to me, maybe at a moment when I couldn’t, when I was alone at home. And it’s rather curious to think that chance, that encounters, shape a destiny... Because when you have a taste for the thing, when you have a taste for the thing done well, the beautiful gesture, sometimes you don’t find the person opposite, I’d say, the mirror that helps you move forward. Now that isn’t my case, as I was saying, since I, on the contrary, I was able to; and I say thank you to life, I say thank you to it, I sing life, I dance life... I am nothing but love! And in the end, when people say to me “But how do you manage to have such humanity?”, I answer them very simply that it’s this taste for love, this taste that drove me today to undertake a mechanical construction... but tomorrow, who knows? Perhaps simply to put myself at the service of the community, to give, to give of myself.
What’s the best startup in the world?
🟡 WeWork. Human after all.
🔺 Snapchat. Human above all.
❎ Facebook. Human inside all.
🔷 Coinbase. Why so human?
What’s the best French startup?
🔷 Sorare, the fantasy football NFT startup. Trillion dollar baby.
🟡 Swile, the meal-voucher app. Billion dollar baby.
🔺 PayFit, the payroll software. Million dollar baby.