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YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
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Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.
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