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That totally sounds like gossip to me. I'm very sceptical that "he [created] a school [as a] kind of a middle finger to them".
by tw1010 8y ago
That totally sounds like gossip to me. I'm very sceptical that "he [created] a school [as a] kind of a middle finger to them".
- ovi256 8y agoThe personal history of the founders totally supports this narrative. Their CVs should be findable on the public internet.
- valw 8y agoI don't think that's the main motive for his creating 42, but he does have a very strong anti-Grandes Écoles bias.
- malka 8y agoFrance is still very much an aristocracy. Niel did not come from the traditional path of the elites (Polytechnique Paris, Centrale, etc.). He was self taught, and god forbid, earned money through minitel porn. The aristocracy considers him, well, gross.
- baby 8y agohis grisp against big french institutions is very real and documented. Look at how he started his company Free, telling people that if they stayed at the big telecom companies they were "pigeon".