Working on something new.
Agentic AI company in New York. Small team, big plans. More soon.
Want an early lookFrench-American, based in New York. Eighteen years building tech companies. Right now I'm focused on a new agentic AI company with a small team.
I moved to New York in 2004 and a few years later started Producteev here, task management for teams. Jive Software acquired it in 2012, which pulled me out to Silicon Valley for the next chapter. New York eventually pulled me back, and I haven't really left since.
Eighteen years in, what keeps me building is the same thing that made me start: I'm more interested in what the future could look like than in what's already been done. Every company I've built taught me what to bring to the next one. Every founder I've backed taught me something I'd never have learned on my own.
Right now I'm focused on a new agentic AI company in New York with a small team. I'm a little less active as an investor than I used to be. Only one-offs these days, mostly through Origins, the consumer fund I co-founded with Blaise Matuidi. The bar is high, the company we're building comes first, and that's the way I want it.
Agentic AI company in New York. Small team, big plans. More soon.
Want an early look
Two years at the Series F leader in customer experience analytics. Led Strategy and Corporate Development, then Partnerships & Strategic Alliances. Worked on M&A, AI partnerships, and the next chapter of the company.
Voice messages that finally replaced meetings. Co-founder & CEO for three years. Shipped a product I'm still proud of, with a team I'd hire again tomorrow.
Reinventing at-home oral health. Co-founder, President & COO. Raised $25M with Kleiner Perkins and the Amazon Alexa Fund. Named one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2020.
A phone for families, so kids and grandparents could stay in touch without an app store between them. Acquired by Nucleus in 2016.
Task management for teams. Started in Paris with three friends, scaled to thousands of paying companies including Apple, Stanford, Disney, and the FT. Acquired by Jive Software in 2012.
The new company is being built with these. Opinions formed from shipping, not from blog posts.
General Partner at Origins, a seed-to-Series-A consumer fund I co-founded with World Cup winner Blaise Matuidi. Earlier, an angel since 2012. A slice of the portfolio, in no particular order.
Lessons from companies I've built or backed, the occasional hot take, and what I'm learning right now.
Four years interviewing French entrepreneurs who made it in America. The "secret sauce," it turns out, is showing up.
Listen on Apple PodcastsPitches, intros, founder questions, podcast invites. Go ahead. I read everything, even when I can't reply right away.
Landed in my inbox. I'll come back to you soon. In the meantime, scroll back up and poke around.
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