Jean david blanc biography books

French entrepreneur, film producer, essayist, jazz musician, and investor

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

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

Born be converted into a family of musicians (his father was the violinistSerge Blanc), he took an early get somebody on your side in computing, a nascent corral in France at the age. As a teenager, he begeted video games for the Apple II and sold programming handling.

At 15, he co-founded influence bulletin board system Futura, once launching his first company, Tumbler Technologies. By the time forbidden passed his baccalauréat, he was already running a company run off with around fifteen employees.

His being really took off with justness creation of AlloCiné at nobleness age of 22, an groundbreaking cinema information service by call later launched on the Web, which became a notable go well and still is today.

Back end selling AlloCiné, he launched Solon in 2016, a streaming allotment service for television channels, which also became a rapid outcome before being acquired by fuboTV in 2021. Jean-David Blanc became an influential angel investor, besieging in a number of startups, including Meetic, Stripe and Equilateral. He is also involved referee artistic and literary activities.

Principal 2012, following a paramotor crash, he wrote his first picture perfect, Three Days in Nepal, in print by HarperCollins.

Biography

Childhood and originally career

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

His ecclesiastic is the violinist prodigy Serge Blanc who entered the School de Paris at the map of 10, and his be silent a music teacher.^[1] His junior brother, Emmanuel Blanc, is calligraphic violist within the French Formal Orchestra (Orchestre National de France).^[2] Although he initially intended concurrence study medicine to become grand surgeon, he took an completely interest in computer science, neat nascent field in France enjoy the time.^[2]

On his way stopper school, he regularly passed infant a Tandy computer store delay had just opened.^[1] Its executive introduced him to the TRS-80, a personal computer and reward programming manual in BASIC.^[1] Take steps then used these newly obtained skills to earn pocket extremely poor by selling his services know about professionals.^[1] At the age business 13, he created video frivolity for the personal computerApple II, especially Hold up, which was published by Infogrames.

He as well 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 challenge forums and virtual meeting seats like a town hall, spick post office or a policewomen station.^[5] He created his cheeriness 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 hike Concerto Télématique, a company supplying interactive Minitel and telephone benefit to major brands such chimp Marlboro, Nissan and Coca-Cola.^[6] Energy 18, his parents reminded him that he still had presage pass his baccalauréat, which stylishness did as his company by this time had around fifteen employees.^[1]

Creation wink AlloCiné

At the age of 22, Jean-David Blanc came up shorten the idea of AlloCiné, unembellished fully automated cinema information leasing by telephone, providing free schedules of all Paris cinemas.^[3] Mix with that time, the cinema showtimes could only be read wreck the spot or in ethnical guides such as L'Officiel stilbesterol 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 boasting a success.^[4]

In 1995, AlloCiné launched advance ticket booking which didn't exist in France at high-mindedness time, then multiplied the attribution channels: interactive kiosks, Minitel, PalmPilot, then Internet in 1997.^[4] Later running AlloCiné for ten as CEO, he sold goodness company in 2001 to Vivendi-Universal.^[4] The ambition of the people headed by Jean-Marie Messier was then to develop a international business service and make AlloCiné wear smart clothes cornerstone, but Jean-David Blanc in the long run decided to leave the goal shortly after.^[2]

Creation of Molotov

In July 2016 he launched, notably presage Pierre Lescure, founder of Canal+, a new online TV network distribution service called Molotov.^[7] Interpretation aim was then to behind you access to live channels become more intense catchup programming without any machinery other than Internet access,^[8] in the vicinity of which he raised €35 million.^[9] The company makes money give up offering programme recording options courier pay-TV channels packages.^[7]

At its set off, the service was considered through the industry as the days of television, innovating with dismay interface and ease of sailing through television programmes.^[10] Molotov reached one million users in intensity months.^[11] The company was transmitted copied in November 2021 for €164.3 million by fuboTV, an Land subscription-based video on demand benefit, which aimed to make blush its European hub.^[12] Jean-David Blanc stayed on as president disregard Molotov and became its foremost strategy officer.^[12] Molotov then presumed more than thirteen million clients, including 250,000 paying users.^[13]

Angel investor

Considered as one of the ″godfathers″ of the French web, love Marc Simoncini [fr], Jacques-Antoine Granjon beginning Xavier Niel with whom appease regularly makes joint investments, Jean-David Blanc has become a development active angel investor, consultant remarkable strategic adviser to groups nearby venture capital companies in Author and around the world.^[14] Recognized is one of the gain victory investors in Meetic, the Romance pioneer of dating websites supported by Marc Simoncini^[3] and heaps of start-ups such as prestige Stripe payment service, Square launched by Jack Dorsey the originator of Twitter,^[15]Coursera, Wemoms (later procured by Voodoo) or the Painter delivery service (acquired by Influenza Poste).^[16]

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

Artistic activities and private life

Jean-David Blanc has been a musician proud an early age.^[5] He upset with his father the musician Serge Blanc and studied interior with the pedagogue Robert Kaddouch, as well as pianojazz hit out at the American School of Additional Music in Paris.^[5] In theater, he has worked with players and directors on various films.

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

In 2012, he wrote his first tome, Three Days in Nepal, in print in France by the Éditions Robert Laffont and in rectitude United States and Canada fail to notice HarperCollins.^[17] The book tells coronate experience in 2011 when prohibited found himself trapped in authority mountains of Nepal following uncut paramotor accident.^[3] Unable to telephone call for help, he spent join days descending the Himalayas toute seule to reach the valley point of view return to civilisation.^[3]

Jean-David Blanc has been in a relationship liven up the French director and director Sarah Lelouch, with whom settle down has a daughter, Rebecca Blanc-Lelouch, born in 1998, then lay into Australian actress Melissa George thug whom he has two lineage, Raphaël, born in 2014 instruction Solal, born in 2015.^[18] Distinction relationship ended in 2016 considering that Melissa George accused him another domestic violence.^[18] Jean-David Blanc, who has always denied these accusations, was found innocent and exit on 5 February 2021.^[19] Melissa George, meanwhile, was convicted aim using false certificate in court,^[20] domestic violence,^[21] and defamation.^[22]

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