Startup Tribune is a tech podcast interviewing founders & current leaders with a focus on data & AI - in France, Europe and internationally: UK, USA, India etc....
#10 Charles Gorintin, cofounder of Alan and Mistral
Charles Gorintin is cofounder of Alan and Mistral, 2 of France's largest billion-$ businesses. This episode is in French. CHARLES GORINTIN Charles is cofounder of Alan, alongisde Jean-Charles Samuelian. We talk to Charles about his begininings, his studies at ENS and Stanford, and how he went on to start 2 of the largest businesses, with a focus on Alan. Charles is also a keen chess-player in his free time. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Charles Gorintin about: 1) Charles' background, Franco-US education and time spent at Meta in the US 2) Alan's huge traction and fundraising rounds 3) Alan's product launches over time and how they prioritised things 4) Charles' use of AI and LLMs and internal techstack built 5) Charles' 3 favourite books and startups (besides Alan and Mistral!) Blackforest Labs Scenario Twin Listen to find out more
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#9 Ori Pekelman, cofounder of Platform.sh
Ori Pekelman is one of the cofounders of Platform.sh, cloud-hosting platform that helps companies build, run and scale their apps and websites. This episode is in French. ORI PEKELMAN Ori is cofounder of Platform.sh, alongside Damien Tournoud and Frederic Plais. Platform.sh simplifies cloud development and supports companies in scaling fleets of applications. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Ori Pekelman about: 1) Ori's background, beginnings of Platform.sh 1'26: Intro to Platform.sh 2'45: How Ori met his cofounders, over 17 years ago 2) Platform.sh's business model 8'00: Platform.sh vs Heroku vs Vercel 12'00: Major considerations in infrastructure-as-code 3) Techstack of Platform.sh 26'00: Deployments in Python 36'00: React vs PhP 4) Datacenters and the environment 39'00: Reduction of carbon emissions 40'20: Main considerations for data centres 5) Three favourite books and startups 1'08: Probable Listen to find out more
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#8 Marc-Henri Gires, cofounder of Defacto
Marc Henri Gires is one of the cofounders of Defacto, fintech leader in France for B2B financing. It offers short-term financing for SMEs with an API-first approach. This episode is in French. MARC HENRI GIRES Marco is cofounder of Defacto. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique and spent many years in the US before returning to France to co-found Defacto. Defacto solves companies' working capital requirements, offering business the ability to repay its suppliers early and automate payments. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with March Henri about: 1) The beginnings of Defacto and core founder traits 2) Defacto's value proposition and positioning within B2B fintech 3) Defacto's techstack 4) Three favourite books and startups Listen to find out more
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#7 Louis Chatriot, CEO and cofounder of Alma
Louis Chatriot is CEO of Alma, fintech leader in France of BNPL, having raised Series C by top investors (Northzone, Headline etc.) This episode is in French. LOUIS CHATRIOT Louis is CEO at Alma, the fintech leader in France of BNPL. Louis talks about his background at Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford, meeting his cofounder, key painpoints and triggers in BNPL, and technical tech stack at Alma (details below). Prior to founding Alma, Louis was former GM of Stripe in Italy. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Louis Chatriot about: 1) The beginnings of Alma and core founder traits - his background at Ecole Polytechnique//Stanford - Alma's 'earned secret' of becoming a leader in a sector which is inherently less 'sexy' (9'00) - how Louis met his cofounder & key traits in founders (12'00) - the importance of being a good salesperson (23'00) 2) Alma's value proposition and positioning within fintech - triggers of debt and overspending (30'00) - fraud prevention and modelling fraud scores (40'00) 3) Alma's techstack - Supervised learning and classification for insurance and fraud prevention (46'00) - Data drift (48'00) - Databases (61'00): PostGres vs MongoDB - Techstack (67'00): React, Python, Java pros and cons 4) Three favourite books and startups Listen to find out more
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#6 Ruben Fiszel, CEO of Windmill.dev
Ruben Fiszel is CEO of Windmill, early-stage France-based devtool player. RUBEN FISZEL Ruben is CEO at Windmill.dev, a leading France-based devtool company. Ruben led engineering at Palantir before that, and is a computer science graduate from EPFL and Stanford University. Ruben scaled Windmill as part of YCombinator's programme. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE As key highlights, Ruben talks about his engineering background at EPFL/Stanford and Palantir; his time building out engineering teams at Palantir, what motivated him to start Windmill and what Windmill does specifically. Louis, Margaux and Ruben also distributed systems, open-source software, and also discuss Spark, Databricks, Airflow, Typescript and lots of other cool stuff.
Startup Tribune is a tech podcast interviewing founders & current leaders with a focus on data & AI - in France, Europe and internationally: UK, USA, India etc.
We share the successes and challenges of inspiring tech leaders (CEOs, CTOs, etc)
This podcast is hosted by Margaux Wehr (ex-Amazon, Balderton Capital) and Louis Abraham (AI researcher, former cybersecurity founder) who met at Ecole Polytechnique.
Episodes are in a mix of English and French depending on guests.
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