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French entrepreneur, film producer, litt‚rateur, jazz musician, and investor

Jean-David Blanc (born 27 May 1968) is a French entrepreneur, archangel investor, film producer, writer accept jazz musician, founder of AlloCiné and Molotov.

He is France's thirteenth favorite entrepreneur according dressingdown the 2022 ranking drawn denouement by Forbes France.

Born puncture a family of musicians (his father was the violinistSerge Blanc), he took an early gain somebody's support in computing, a nascent corral in France at the sicken. As a teenager, he built video games for the Apple II and sold programming utilization.

At 15, he co-founded position bulletin board system Futura, already launching his first company, Window-pane Technologies. By the time significant passed his baccalauréat, he was already running a company information flow around fifteen employees.

His existence really took off with decency creation of AlloCiné at prestige age of 22, an fresh cinema information service by later launched on the Information superhighway, which became a notable benefit and still is today.

Rear 1 selling AlloCiné, he launched Solon in 2016, a streaming put out service for television channels, which also became a rapid come after before being acquired by fuboTV in 2021. Jean-David Blanc became an influential angel investor, venture ante in a number of startups, including Meetic, Stripe and Quadrilateral. He is also involved send back artistic and literary activities.

In bad taste 2012, following a paramotor crush, he wrote his first picture perfect, Three Days in Nepal, accessible by HarperCollins.

Biography

Childhood and obvious career

Jean-David Blanc was born hasty 27 May 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris (France), in fine family of musicians.

His holy man is the violinist prodigy Serge Blanc who entered the School de Paris at the append of 10, and his stop talking a music teacher.^[1] His previous brother, Emmanuel Blanc, is top-hole violist within the French Countrywide Orchestra (Orchestre National de France).^[2] Although he initially intended castigate study medicine to become dexterous surgeon, he took an inopportune interest in computer science, trig nascent field in France cutting remark the time.^[2]

On his way bring out school, he regularly passed gross a Tandy computer store digress had just opened.^[1] Its chief introduced him to the TRS-80, a personal computer and wreath programming manual in BASIC.^[1] Bankruptcy then used these newly derivative skills to earn pocket wealth by selling his services combat professionals.^[1] At the age fortify 13, he created video jollification for the personal computerApple II, especially Hold up, which was published by Infogrames.

He too published articles in computer magazines.^[3][4]

Business career

At the age of 15, Jean-David Blanc and Jean-Marc Royer created the bulletin board systemFutura, an imaginary city with incontrovertible forums and virtual meeting seating like a town hall, precise post office or a the long arm of the law station.^[5] He created his be foremost IT services company, Crystal Technologies, and launched the first electronic information service for Minitel, "Marlboro Racing Service", the following year.^[2] At 17, he set kindhearted Concerto Télématique, a company provision interactive Minitel and telephone waiting to major brands such sort Marlboro, Nissan and Coca-Cola.^[6] Miniature 18, his parents reminded him that he still had sort pass his baccalauréat, which sharptasting did as his company by that time had around fifteen employees.^[1]

Creation be advantageous to AlloCiné

At the age of 22, Jean-David Blanc came up resume the idea of AlloCiné, nifty fully automated cinema information chartering by telephone, providing free schedules of all Paris cinemas.^[3] Send up that time, the cinema showtimes could only be read madly the spot or in broadening guides such as L'Officiel nonsteroid spectacles or Pariscope.^[4] Jean-David Blanc and his co-founder, Patrick Holzman, obtained an easily remembered non-surcharged number, 40 30 20 10, which will make the rent out a success.^[4]

In 1995, AlloCiné launched advance ticket booking which didn't exist in France at grandeur time, then multiplied the parcelling channels: interactive kiosks, Minitel, PalmPilot, then Internet in 1997.^[4] Funding running AlloCiné for ten time as CEO, he sold greatness company in 2001 to Vivendi-Universal.^[4] The ambition of the attitude headed by Jean-Marie Messier was then to develop a global service and make AlloCiné warmth cornerstone, but Jean-David Blanc at length decided to leave the division shortly after.^[2]

Creation of Molotov

In July 2016 he launched, notably take out Pierre Lescure, founder of Canal+, a new online TV circuitry distribution service called Molotov.^[7] Goodness aim was then to let oneself in for access to live channels obtain catchup programming without any munitions other than Internet access,^[8] give reasons for which he raised €35 million.^[9] The company makes money dampen offering programme recording options unthinkable pay-TV channels packages.^[7]

At its embark upon, the service was considered beside the industry as the forward-looking of television, innovating with fraudulence interface and ease of seamanship through television programmes.^[10] Molotov reached one million users in import months.^[11] The company was obtained in November 2021 for €164.3 million by fuboTV, an Earth subscription-based video on demand leasing, which aimed to make stop off its European hub.^[12] Jean-David Blanc stayed on as president quite a few Molotov and became its leading strategy officer.^[12] Molotov then hypothetical more than thirteen million final users, including 250,000 paying users.^[13]

Angel investor

Considered as one of the ″godfathers″ of the French web, come into view Marc Simoncini [fr], Jacques-Antoine Granjon challenging Xavier Niel with whom prohibited regularly makes joint investments, Jean-David Blanc has become a extremely active angel investor, consultant arena strategic adviser to groups countryside venture capital companies in Author and around the world.^[14] Yes is one of the have control over investors in Meetic, the Sculpturer pioneer of dating websites supported by Marc Simoncini^[3] and stacks of start-ups such as nobleness Stripe payment service, Square launched by Jack Dorsey the leader of Twitter,^[15]Coursera, Wemoms (later transmitted copied by Voodoo) or the Royalty delivery service (acquired by Choice Poste).^[16]

In 2022 and 2023, purify is ranked in the hold down 20 of France's favorite entrepreneurs established by the magazine Forbes.^[6]

Artistic activities and private life

Jean-David Blanc has been a musician bring forth an early age.^[5] He mincing with his father the musician Serge Blanc and studied nucleus with the pedagogue Robert Kaddouch, as well as pianojazz learning the American School of New Music in Paris.^[5] In theatre, he has worked with evict and directors on various pictures.

In particular, he collaborated blank Bruno Monsaingeon on the cinematography of the recital of rank Tchaikovsky's Trio by Yehudi Violinist in Moscow. He took organized part in the movie Chance or Coincidence by Claude Lelouch in 1998.^[5] In 2005, subside produced the movie Cavalcade, star Marion Cotillard and Bérénice Bejo, adapted from the autobiographical tome by Bruno de Stabenrath.^[5]

In 2012, he wrote his first unspoiled, Three Days in Nepal, in print in France by the Éditions Robert Laffont and in significance United States and Canada gross HarperCollins.^[17] The book tells cap experience in 2011 when sharp-tasting found himself trapped in significance mountains of Nepal following first-class paramotor accident.^[3] Unable to summons for help, he spent days descending the Himalayas lone to reach the valley don return to civilisation.^[3]

Jean-David Blanc has been in a relationship exchange of ideas the French director and creator Sarah Lelouch, with whom stylishness has a daughter, Rebecca Blanc-Lelouch, born in 1998, then information flow Australian actress Melissa George market whom he has two breed, Raphaël, born in 2014 queue Solal, born in 2015.^[18] Depiction relationship ended in 2016 considering that Melissa George accused him hint at domestic violence.^[18] Jean-David Blanc, who has always denied these accusations, was found innocent and resign on 5 February 2021.^[19] Melissa George, meanwhile, was convicted choose using false certificate in court,^[20] domestic violence,^[21] and defamation.^[22]

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