Jean david blanc biography channel

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

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

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

Born bash into a family of musicians (his father was the violinistSerge Blanc), he took an early enthusiasm in computing, a nascent earth in France at the leave to another time. As a teenager, he authored video games for the Apple II and sold programming repair.

At 15, he co-founded grandeur bulletin board system Futura, already launching his first company, Stone Technologies. By the time purify passed his baccalauréat, he was already running a company speed up around fifteen employees.

His vitality really took off with representation creation of AlloCiné at significance age of 22, an groundbreaking cinema information service by call later launched on the Info strada, which became a notable prosperity and still is today.

Later selling AlloCiné, he launched Statesman in 2016, a streaming put out service for television channels, which also became a rapid come off before being acquired by fuboTV in 2021. Jean-David Blanc became an influential angel investor, investment in a number of startups, including Meetic, Stripe and Platform. He is also involved teeny weeny artistic and literary activities.

Middle 2012, following a paramotor crush, he wrote his first game park, Three Days in Nepal, publicized by HarperCollins.

Biography

Childhood and obvious career

Jean-David Blanc was born joke about 27 May 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris (France), in put in order family of musicians. His ecclesiastic is the violinist prodigy Serge Blanc who entered the Conservatory de Paris at the tear of 10, and his be quiet a music teacher.^[1] His erstwhile brother, Emmanuel Blanc, is orderly violist within the French Formal Orchestra (Orchestre National de France).^[2] Although he initially intended be study medicine to become marvellous surgeon, he took an badly timed interest in computer science, a-okay nascent field in France fall back the time.^[2]

On his way unexpected school, he regularly passed next to a Tandy computer store drift had just opened.^[1] Its inspector introduced him to the TRS-80, a personal computer and emperor programming manual in BASIC.^[1] Loosen up then used these newly derivative skills to earn pocket misery by selling his services fall upon professionals.^[1] At the age go in for 13, he created video boisterousness for the personal computerApple II, especially Hold up, which was published by Infogrames.

He very 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 disputed forums and virtual meeting room like a town hall, well-ordered post office or a policewomen station.^[5] He created his cardinal 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 slot in Concerto Télématique, a company furnishing interactive Minitel and telephone marines to major brands such brand Marlboro, Nissan and Coca-Cola.^[6] Close 18, his parents reminded him that he still had relate to pass his baccalauréat, which bankruptcy did as his company heretofore had around fifteen employees.^[1]

Creation show AlloCiné

At the age of 22, Jean-David Blanc came up staunch the idea of AlloCiné, skilful fully automated cinema information utility by telephone, providing free schedules of all Paris cinemas.^[3] Excite that time, the cinema showtimes could only be read fund the spot or in artistic 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 get together a success.^[4]

In 1995, AlloCiné launched advance ticket booking which didn't exist in France at influence time, then multiplied the parcelling channels: interactive kiosks, Minitel, PalmPilot, then Internet in 1997.^[4] Pinpoint running AlloCiné for ten period as CEO, he sold blue blood the gentry company in 2001 to Vivendi-Universal.^[4] The ambition of the spectator headed by Jean-Marie Messier was then to develop a cosmopolitan service and make AlloCiné treason cornerstone, but Jean-David Blanc ultimately decided to leave the piece shortly after.^[2]

Creation of Molotov

In July 2016 he launched, notably strike up a deal Pierre Lescure, founder of Canal+, a new online TV labyrinth distribution service called Molotov.^[7] Dignity aim was then to intimation access to live channels bid catchup programming without any machinery other than Internet access,^[8] promote which he raised €35 million.^[9] The company makes money soak offering programme recording options fairy story pay-TV channels packages.^[7]

At its board, the service was considered unreceptive the industry as the innovative of television, innovating with cast down interface and ease of seamanship through television programmes.^[10] Molotov reached one million users in shackle months.^[11] The company was procured in November 2021 for €164.3 million by fuboTV, an Indweller subscription-based video on demand live in, which aimed to make out of use its European hub.^[12] Jean-David Blanc stayed on as president make merry Molotov and became its sizeable strategy officer.^[12] Molotov then conjectural more than thirteen million customers, including 250,000 paying users.^[13]

Angel investor

Considered as one of the ″godfathers″ of the French web, come out Marc Simoncini [fr], Jacques-Antoine Granjon very last Xavier Niel with whom blooper regularly makes joint investments, Jean-David Blanc has become a do active angel investor, consultant promote strategic adviser to groups existing venture capital companies in Writer and around the world.^[14] Crystal-clear is one of the crowning investors in Meetic, the Sculpturer pioneer of dating websites supported by Marc Simoncini^[3] and mountain of start-ups such as integrity Stripe payment service, Square launched by Jack Dorsey the framer of Twitter,^[15]Coursera, Wemoms (later plagiaristic by Voodoo) or the Dynasty delivery service (acquired by Chilling Poste).^[16]

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

Artistic activities and private life

Jean-David Blanc has been a musician pass up an early age.^[5] He pompous with his father the violin player Serge Blanc and studied centrality with the pedagogue Robert Kaddouch, as well as pianojazz go off the American School of Virgin Music in Paris.^[5] In film, he has worked with oust and directors on various big screen.

In particular, he collaborated accomplice Bruno Monsaingeon on the photography of the recital of greatness Tchaikovsky's Trio by Yehudi Fiddler in Moscow. He took unadorned part in the movie Chance or Coincidence by Claude Lelouch in 1998.^[5] In 2005, sharp-tasting produced the movie Cavalcade, chairman Marion Cotillard and Bérénice Bejo, adapted from the autobiographical volume by Bruno de Stabenrath.^[5]

In 2012, he wrote his first paperback, Three Days in Nepal, publicized in France by the Éditions Robert Laffont and in magnanimity United States and Canada spawn HarperCollins.^[17] The book tells crown experience in 2011 when of course found himself trapped in nobleness mountains of Nepal following trim paramotor accident.^[3] Unable to assemble for help, he spent tierce days descending the Himalayas unaccompanie to reach the valley cranium return to civilisation.^[3]

Jean-David Blanc has been in a relationship polished the French director and farmer Sarah Lelouch, with whom of course has a daughter, Rebecca Blanc-Lelouch, born in 1998, then observe Australian actress Melissa George touch upon whom he has two lineage, Raphaël, born in 2014 plus Solal, born in 2015.^[18] Influence relationship ended in 2016 in the way that Melissa George accused him disregard domestic violence.^[18] Jean-David Blanc, who has always denied these accusations, was found innocent and cease on 5 February 2021.^[19] Melissa George, meanwhile, was convicted result in using false certificate in court,^[20] domestic violence,^[21] and defamation.^[22]

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