Sublime

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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

Tech entrepreneurs succeed precisely because they realize the competitive advantages of working with the multitude rather than embracing a more traditional approach.

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

Alexandre Melnik, né à Moscou, est professeur associé de géopolitique et responsable académique à ICN Business School Nancy-Metz. Il est aussi conférencier international sur les enjeux clés de la globalisation du XXI siècle, intervenant devant divers publics (universités, think-tanks, institutions d’État, entreprises) un peu partout dans le monde :