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Welcome to Entrepreneur Talks by STATION F, a podcast to inspire and support entrepreneurs in their journey! STATION F is the world's largest startup campus, with 1000+ startups working on-site. Located in Paris, STATION F gathers all the services an entrepreneur might need under one roof, including 350+ VC funds, 30+ public administrations, and mentorship offices by leading tech companies like Apple, Google, AWS, and OVH. We are here to help bring ambitious ideas to life and, in this podcas ...
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OpenRoom Talks

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A series of short, original podcasts which draws on OpenRoom’s 16 years of experience in connecting global businesses. Informal conversations across a wide range of issues between industry experts, innovative suppliers and their high-powered customers.
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Post Mortem

François Paupier

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In Post Mortem, engineers reflect on real-life incidents of IT systems they experienced. In each episode, we zoom on a specific event, ranging from a system outage, a cyber-attack, or a machine learning algorithm going wild with production data. We try to understand what happened and how the people behind those systems solved the situation. Along the way, you'll get hands-on advice shared by experienced practitioners that you can implement within your team to limit the risk of such incidents.
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In this episode of the Post Mortem podcast, we dive deep into the impact of artificial intelligence in modern warfare with retired Colonel John Antal. With over 30 years of experience in the US Army and a prolific career as an author and software industry expert, COL Antal shares his insights into the future of warfare. We explore the concept of de…
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In this new episode of Entrepreneur Talks, we sit down with Blaise Matuidi and Ilan Abehassera, Co-founders and General Partners of Origins, to learn more about building a VC fund that combines funding with influence. Origins is a Venture Capital fund investing across Paris, NYC and Miami in legendary consumer founders. In this episode of Entrepren…
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In this new episode of Entrepreneur Talks, we catch up with Nicolas Morin-Forest, co-founder & CEO of Gourmey, a company that creates culinary delights like foie gras, directly from cell cultivation. Thanks to Gourmey, it’s now possible to eat foie gras that doesn’t come from an animal! In this new episode of Entrepreneur Talks, we have the pleasur…
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Welcome to the latest episode of Entrepreneur Talks, STATION F's podcast. We had the chance to sit down with Frédéric Montagnon, Founder & Chairman of Arianee. He created 7 companies, exited 5 of them, killed one, and invested in more than 150 startups. Arianee is on a mission to empower brands and owners to give digital life to products, experienc…
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Every digital transformation journey is unique. For convenience and fuel retailers, the common denominator is the data that lies at the heart of their operations. Turned into actionable insights, data can become a key differentiator for enabling successful businesses to compete effectively and provide exceptional customer experiences.…
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Dans l’épisode #23 du podcast Post Mortem, je reçois Philippe Laval, ingénieur & fondateur de plusieurs entreprises dont SINEQUA, Philippe est aujourd’hui CTO à Jolt Capital, un fonds d’investissement dans la DeepTech en Europe. Dans la tech, les parcours de carrières pour les ingénieurs logiciels se distinguent souvent en deux voies proposées en e…
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Having a deep impact on pollution with a breakthrough technology! That's one bet Neoplants is about to win in the next few months. After 4 years of R&D, the Neo P1, an indoor plant to purify the air, is coming to home. This is what we discuss with Lionel Mora, CEO & co-founder of Neoplants, amongst other topics, in this new episode of Entrepreneur …
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Creating a platform and a community to help launch 250,000+ products. That's what Ryan Hoover has accomplished with Product Hunt. Now he is investing in early-stage startups from all around the world with Weekend Fund, a VC fund he cofounded with Vedika Jain. Tune in to this new episode to learn more about Ryan's entrepreneurial journey, his learni…
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Dans l’épisode #22 du podcast Post Mortem, je reçois Alex Combessie. Alex est co-fondateur et CEO de Giskard – une solution d’évaluation de modèles d’IA. Avec Alex, on revient sur les différentes prises de consciences qui ont touché les équipes data autour de la mise en production de projets IA. On s’interroge également sur la disponibilité de l’ou…
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La cybersécurité est un domaine ingrat. Le défenseur doit s’assurer que l’ensemble de son système est sécurisé, là où l’attaquant a besoin d’une unique faille pour atteindre son objectif. La gestion d’incident cyber implique de collecter et d’analyser minutieusement les journaux des différentes applications et serveurs, comment faire pour s’assurer…
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Sin Hin & Mark follow up on Mark’s presentation at ReFuelForum APAC 2022 in Singapore with an emphasis on the strategic framework for the future of P&C retail in the APAC region looking to 2030 and beyond.By OpenRoom Events, Sin Hin Wong, Mark McKenzie
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Nous sommes en 2007 ; Alors que Steve Jobs annonce le premier iPhone, la chaîne franco-allemande se lance déjà dans le replay avec Arte+7. Fast-forward 10 ans, et c’est un service de VoD complet - Arte.tv - qui offre un catalogue de contenu et une proposition de valeur qui n’a pas à rougir des mastodontes américains. - Comment expliquer cette trans…
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Le Department of Defense américain, c’est plus de 2.9 millions de personnels dont plus de 320 000 personnels à l’U.S. Air Force. Déployer et maintenir du logiciel opérationnel à cette échelle - dans un contexte de compétition international grandissante - nécessite de pouvoir ajuster rapidement ses priorités, de prototyper et déployer des solutions …
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Did you know that Jeff Lawson, the co-founder and CEO of Twilio, sold his wedding gifts to kick the company off? Back in the summer of 2008, this strategy may seem risky but looking at what Twilio achieved since, it clearly was a winning choice. Twilio is now the leading cloud communications platform and became an international company. Despite its…
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En une semaine, une crypto monnaie censée assurer la parité avec le dollar ne vaut plus que quelques centimes. Ce sont 2 des tops 10 projets de l’écosystème crypto qui s’écroulent sous les yeux des investisseurs voyant leurs réserves en asset « stable » fondre. - Commente expliquer la chute des deux projets phares de l’écosystème Terra ? Dans l’épi…
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In 2018, only a few people knew what an NFT was and the term Web3 was far from being a buzzword. However, Nicolas Julia was convinced that it would be the next revolution in the tech space so he co-founded Sorare, global fantasy football game (or soccer game, for our American audience) that you play with NFTs. Sorare became a unicorn in less than f…
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En octobre dernier, Facebook était indisponible plusieurs heures durant. Le même mois, l’hébergeur français OVH a également subit un incident. Leur point commun ? BGP. Le Border Gateway Protocol. Dans cet épisode #17 de Post Mortem, Stéphane Bortzmeyer nous fait découvrir les coulisses d’internet. Là où le « cloud », le « serverless » se fracasse à…
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FemTech designates all technologies addressing women’s health — including reproductive health, hormonal health, menopause, and a lot more. Last year, STATION F launched a new startup program to support innovation in this space because FemTech entrepreneurs have to overcome additional challenges on top of the usual founder hurdles: they have to deal…
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“Talent wars”, “the Great Resignation”, “the hiring race” — you’ve likely seen these words all over the headlines of your favourite tech media. It’s no secret that recruiting for tech talent is becoming increasingly competitive and companies are looking for the secret sauce to win over top candidates. A few months ago, STATION F conducted a study o…
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Climate change is a global threat and, without a doubt, one of the greatest challenges of our generation. According to PitchBook, VC investment in climate tech companies this year has already exceeded the previous two years by 37 percent. At the beginning of this year, Elon Musk offered a 100M$ prize to find the “best carbon capture technology” abl…
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Steve Withey, Principal Software Engineer @ ASOS, walks us through the journey ASOS tech teams followed towards adopting a blameless postmortem culture. In today's episode, we cover: What motivated this transition towards a blameless PM culture and how it happened; How to drive the cultural change among your team to make this blameless approach wor…
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Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the leading automation tool in the ever-growing no-code space. Earlier this year, Zapier reached $5 billion in valuation and $140 million in recurring revenue — one might think of it as a standard Silicon Valley startup that has raised lots of money with VCs but, apart from having done YC, the compan…
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Ils ont fait x4 en effectif en moins de 2 ans et ont recruté plus de 60 Data Scientists. Preligens est une scale-up proposant des solutions logicielles dans le domaine de la défense et a connu une croissance fulgurante ces deux dernières années. Aujourd’hui, je reçois Marie-Caroline Corbineau, Data Scientist au sein de l’équipe R&D de Preligens pou…
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It is 2021, the rate of change in fuel and convenience, and that of the consumer, has been exponential. Yet whilst grocery chains have embraced tech quickly, C-Stores are playing catch-up. Retailers are increasingly reaching out to smaller companies and start-ups to solve their technology problems, embracing the world of cloud to get to market fast…
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Emmanuel Straschnov is the founder of Bubble, a leading company in the no-code movement. Founded in 2012, Bubble was launched before the term "no-code" had even been coined, with the ambition to help anyone build web applications without any knowledge of code. It has since helped many entrepreneurs launch their companies without a technical co-foun…
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After the success of his first book AI Superpowers, a New York Times best-seller examining the role of the US and China in the future of artificial intelligence, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is back with a new book! Co-authored with award-winning science-fiction writer Chen Quifan, his latest book is called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. AI2041 presents a …
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Co-founder of Masterclass. Founder and CEO of Outlier.org. Aaron Rasmussen is most known for founding these two phenomenal EdTech companies but he is a very prolific builder who has successfully started and sold companies in the gaming, robotics, and consumer packaged goods industries. With Outlier.org, a company that creates beautifully shot onlin…
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Cette semaine-là, Xavier reçoit plus de 80 alertes la nuit. Impossible de dormir correctement. Il y a forcément quelque chose à faire pour sortir les ingénieurs on-call de cette spirale et éviter une alert fatigue. Mais par où commencer ? Dans cet épisode, on retrace la façon dont Algolia a réorganisé ses efforts de maintenance opérationnelle à mes…
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Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front. Since starting Front in 2013, Mathilde has raised over $138 million with an impressive roster of investors including Sequoia, Initialized, and the founders of Slack, Zoom, Atlassian, and more. She is known for her values-driven leadership style and for championing top-down radical transparency. Fr…
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An informative discussion on developing innovations & implementing change in response to extraordinary challenges. The veterinary profession has delivered patient care, client education while growing practice health during a time of great difficulty. Leadership, pivoting quickly, empowering all team members and flexibility are evident in practices …
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Back in 2018, Alex Bouaziz and his co-founder Shuo Wang picked up on the trend of remote work and founded Deel, a startup that helps companies of all sizes compliantly hire and pay talent remotely all around the world. Over a year into COVID, it's clear that remote work is here to stay and has become a new norm, particularly for tech companies. Wit…
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Jamie Macfarlane is the founder & CEO of Creator Fund, an early-stage VC fund that invests in student-led companies with student investment partners. Having studied both in the UK and in the USA, he started Creator Fund based on the observation that some of the world's most successful technology companies —like Facebook and Google— have been starte…
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The tech entrepreneur who raised the largest seed round in Europe this year. The restaurateur behind Paris' favourite group of Italian restaurants. Victor Lugger is the co-founder and CEO of Big Mamma Group and Sunday App. Being at the head of 26 very popular Italian restaurants across Europe, including La Felicità on our campus, Victor is embarkin…
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Quelle interface choisir pour les utilisateurs de mon site ? Le nouveau système de recommandation de mon application a-t-il un impact ? Pour qui ? Un test AB permet de comparer deux variantes afin d’identifier la plus efficace pour l’objectif recherché. Aujourd’hui, je reçois Cyril De Catheu, Data Engineer @ AB Tasty pour discuter des dessous d’une…
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As a lead-up to the Big Debate in September, forecourt industry veteran Michael O’Loughlin gets together with PRA Chairman Brian Madderson and Eurotank Service Group’s Paul O’Hare, to mull over different directions retailers might take as the 2030 deadline draws closer. Eurotank is the parent company of Europump Maintenance, ReFuel UK 2021’s platin…
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A few years ago, Sarah Guo became the first female and youngest General Partner at one of the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Greylock. Sarah has led investments in companies like Figma, Clubhouse (not the social media 😉), and Sqreen. She is bullish on SaaS and openly shares on her website the types of companies for which she's keepin…
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Des emojis les plus populaires sur iOS à l'affluence dans votre boutique préférée sur Google Maps; comment ces informations sont obtenues? Et quelles garanties peut-on avoir quant à la préservation de l'anonymat des utilisateurs? Dans ce Post Mortem thématique, le Docteur Damien Desfontaines - Senior Software Engineer, Privacy pour Google nous parl…
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Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of Codecademy, the leading online learning platform for technical skills. Since its founding in 2011, Codecademy has helped over 50 million people from 190+ countries learn how to code. The company has raised over $82M from investors like Union Square Ventures, Naspers, Owl Ventures, Y Combinator, and Kleiner Per…
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Fundraising has become a rite of passage for any startup that claims to be ambitious. It is perceived to be a must by many founders, especially those who are building SaaS products that need to grow fast and want to acquire a large market share. However, fundraising is not always the only way for such a company to succeed. In this episode, we catch…
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Tous les jours, des millions de voyageurs prennent le train sur le réseau SNCF, mais parfois, un train subit un retard. Aujourd'hui je reçois Héloïse Nonne, Head of Data Science & Engineering @ eSNCF, pour comprendre comment ce problème est adressé en interne pour améliorer l'information voyageurs. Après avoir présenté les spécificités d'un projet …
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There could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report. Plastic pollution is a huge problem — but it's not one that is irreversible if we act quickly enough. In this episode, we explore and address the issue of plastics with two founders that are striving to make a change: Samantha Anderson, CE…
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Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion, the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. Entrepreneurs rave about it, VCs chase after it, and we simply cannot stop hearing about it. Notion bundles multiple use cases into one tool and helps teams cut down on their number of applications used. For many users, Notion sparks…
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Les plateformes de Data Science comme Kaggle permettent de découvrir des jeux de données variés et de se tester face à d'autres compétiteurs. Plus votre modèle performe, meilleur est votre classement sur le leaderboard. Avec des jeux de données "curated" et des métriques à optimiser définies dès le début, le setup d'un Kaggle est souvent bien diffé…
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A new billion-dollar fund "crafting a fertile future". A new-generation VC backed by 15 top entrepreneurs to support the "new wave" of founders. The VC ecosystem is blossoming in France and we interview three investors at the heart of this movement: Marie Ekeland (2050), Pia d'Iribarne (New Wave), and Jean de la Rochebrochard (New Wave and Kima Ven…
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Les fêtes de fin d’années sont synonymes de pics d’activités pour le e-commerce. Alors comment réagir quand on se rend compte qu’un incident se profile à l’horizon du moment le plus business critique de l’année ? Une conversation avec Théo Carrive, CTO de Cheerz. Concepts mentionnés: La commande EXPLAIN de PostgreSQL pour obtenir le plan d’exécutio…
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This episode of OpenRoom Talks explores novel security risks posed by the rapid digital transformations that many convenience and fuel retailers have taken in response to the pandemic. PDI's Chris Berry (CTO), Cliff Duffey (Executive Advisor) and Mark Carl (CSO) discuss: COVID-19 as a catalyst for tech adoption The digital risks c-stores and foreco…
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IPOs or acquisitions? When it comes to exit strategies, going public remains less celebrated in Europe. Most startups imagine huge barriers to listing...but is it really that complicated? In this episode, we learn more about the pros and cons of doing an IPO with Camille Leca, COO Listing at Euronext, and Odd Sverre Østlie, CEO at Pexip, a videocon…
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"When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?" disait JM Keynes. L’économiste soulignait alors l’importance de réajuster ses a priori et sa représentation du monde lorsqu'on on est confronté à de nouveaux éléments. C’est la même chose lorsqu’on entraîne un modèle de machine learning et qu’on le déploie. Les données que l’on va renc…
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Last April, the world's leading accelerator Y Combinator announced that it would be going virtual for its S20 batch. One batch later, we interview YC President Geoff Ralston to learn about the difference that going remote has made. It turns out that there are more pros than cons: YC partners were able to work with companies in over 15 time zones, c…
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