Sublime

Michel Valentin. Chef d’entreprise très performant, ce dernier se trouvait alors dans une phase de réflexion quant à la pertinence du modèle actuel.

Near the end of my stint as an entrepreneur, my friend Henri Verdier (now the chief information officer of the French government) and I wrote a book together: L’Âge de la multitude[177]. We designed it as both a testimonial of what the startup world was all about and a wake-up call for the old world of elected officials, civil servants, and

The publishing of L’Âge de la multitude in 2012 caught the attention of the French government. As I went back to the public sector for a brief period, they asked me to write a report, alongside Pierre Collin (a respected tax judge in the French Conseil d’Etat), on taxation and the digital economy[207]. The