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Do we even have €10M+ startups in France? Besides Gemalto which is 30 years old. There's just no way we could create an Apple in France. It's too agressive, th
by tajen 11y ago
Do we even have €10M+ startups in France? Besides Gemalto which is 30 years old.
There's just no way we could create an Apple in France. It's too agressive, therefore we would forbid it.
- ethnomusicolog 11y agoI think algolia might count soon given their last funding round.
- throwaway41597 11y agoIliad is a €10B telco started about 20 years ago by a twenty-something. There was Business Objects which sold for some billions circa 2000. Criteo started in the 2000s and is worth billions. In tech, there are also DailyMotion, Deezer, BlaBlaCar, Withings and Sigfox in the €100M+ range. YC certainly fares better in a decade than France in 30 years. But you shouldn't be self-deprecating, or you may start to believe it's impossible to start a startup in France. When there's a will, there's a way. Anyhow, we're getting off-topic.
- dthal 11y agoDoes Criteo count? Yahoo finance says its market cap is 3.3B[1]. [1]http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRTO http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRTO