Data Tribune: Tech Podcast

  1. Jun 30

    #18 Flore Lestrade, CEO and founder of Veeton

    We talk to Flore Lestrade, the CEO and founder of Veeton. Veeton is an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. It provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions, by helping clients create e-commerce shoots in a few clicks. Its technology generates a range of high-quality on-model images, using only pack-shot photos. Veeton has raised a few million dollars of funding already, at seed stage. How does one generate photoshoots at scale? How does one adapt to the evolving world of fashion with AI? We end the discussion as usual with Flore's favourite books and startups. FLORE LESTRADE Flore is the founder of Veeton. She is a graduate of HEC Paris (leading French business school). MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  2. Mar 31

    #17 Steeve Morin, CEO and founder of ZML

    We talk to Steeve, the CEO and founder of ZML (not to be confused with ZenML). ZML is one of the leading European startups in AI inference founded in 2023. It has raised millions in technology funding by 20VC and other notable investors. Steeve tells us about AI inference, painpoints in AI inference, costs of chips and GPUs, and energy consumption in data centres. We end the discussion as usual with Steeve's favourites books and startups. STEEVE MORIN Steeve is a well-known tech entrepreneur based in Paris, former VP Engineering of Zenly and current CEO of ZML.  MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  3. 12/12/2025

    #16 Alexandre Hollocou, CTO & co-founder of Joko

    Alexandre is the co-founder of Joko, amongst the top France's fintech scale-ups with offices in NYC, started in 2018 to revolutionise how retailers reward consumers for their spending. It was co-founded by Nicolas Salat-Baroux, Xavier Starkloff, and Alexandre Hollocou. The Joko app, available for free on the Google Play Store and App Store, has since gained popularity in France, with over 5 millon users and over €30b in transaction volume. Joko is profitable. ALEXANDRE HOLLOCOU Alexandre is a well-known fintech entrepreneur who is based in Paris and spends time in New York with his co-founders. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique and co-founded Joko in 2018 with Nicolas Salat-Baroux and Xavier Starkloff. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  4. 11/25/2025

    #15 Yann Lechelle, cofounder of probabl: (former CEO of Scaleaway)

    Yann is the co-founder of probabl: and former CEO of Scaleway, France's largest hosting internet hosting company, part of Iliad Group. Probabl: is a spin-off of Inria, France's largest research lab. YANN LECHELLE Yann is a well-known technology entrepreneur who spent years in Silicon Valley. Probabl: is editing sci-kit learn at scale, with over 2b downloads, and is a spin-off from Inria. It recently raised €13m led by Serena Capital. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  5. 11/11/2025

    #14 Alexandre Grux, CPO of DiliTrust

    Alexandre Grux is CPO of DiliTrust, one of Europe's largest SaaS legaltech companies, present in over 60 countries and 2500+ clients, after he sold his company (Hyperlex) to Dilitrust. ALEXANDRE GRUX Alexandre undertook France, and probably Europe's most technical engineering background: the famous MVA, from university ENS. We talk to Alexandre about cutting edge at DiliTrust that he's implementing (neural networks, LLMs, foundation models) and that he pioneered already years ago while building Hyperlex (contract drafting using deep-learning). MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  6. 07/28/2025

    #13 Ed Cooke, co-founder of Memrise and MindMax Labs

    Ed is founder of Memrise, one of the world's most prominent  language apps. He is also the co-founder of Sonic Sphere, and more recently, edtech startup MindMax Labs. He is also World Master of Memory. ED COOKE We talk to Ed about his beginnings starting Memrise, the role of memory, and LLMs in the context of his new edtech startup. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  7. 06/21/2025

    #12 Stéphane Bereux, co-founder of Jimini AI

    Stephane is founder of JiminiAI, one of France's most promising legaltech startups. This episode is in French. STEPHANE BEREUX We talk to Stéphane about his beginnings starting Jimini AI almost straight out of Ecole Polytechique, his background as an engineer, the future of legaltech, and how Jimini AI is innovating in cutting edge research and drafting of legal documents. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  8. 05/14/2025

    #11 Andrea Bensaid, founder of Eskimoz (Feb 2025, in French)

    Andrea is founder of Eskimoz, one of the largest digital agencies in France and in Europe more widely. This episode is in French. ANDREA BENSAID We talk to Andrea about his beginnings starting Eskimoz almost straight out of French business school, his entrepreneurial drive, data science applied to marketing, and the future of AI in marketing. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/

  9. 02/13/2025

    #10 Charles Gorintin, cofounder of Alan and Mistral

    Charles Gorintin is cofounder of Alan and Mistral, 2 of France's largest billion-$ businesses. This episode is in French. CHARLES GORINTIN Charles is cofounder of Alan, alongisde  Jean-Charles Samuelian. We talk to Charles about his begininings, his studies at ENS and Stanford, and how he went on to start 2 of the largest businesses, with a focus on Alan. Charles is also a keen chess-player in his free time. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Charles Gorintin about: 1) Charles' background, Franco-US education and time spent at Meta in the US  2)  Alan's huge traction and fundraising rounds 3) Alan's product launches over time and how they prioritised things 4) Charles' use of AI and LLMs and internal techstack built  5) Charles' 3 favourite books and startups (besides Alan and Mistral!) Blackforest Labs Scenario Twin Listen to find out more

  10. 01/24/2025

    #9 Ori Pekelman, cofounder of Platform.sh

    Ori Pekelman is one of the cofounders of Platform.sh, cloud-hosting platform that helps companies build, run and scale their apps and websites. This episode is in French. ORI PEKELMAN Ori is cofounder of Platform.sh, alongside Damien Tournoud and Frederic Plais. Platform.sh simplifies cloud development and supports companies in scaling fleets of applications. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/ IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Ori Pekelman about: 1) Ori's background, beginnings of Platform.sh 1'26: Intro to Platform.sh 2'45: How Ori met his cofounders, over 17 years ago 2) Platform.sh's business model 8'00: Platform.sh vs Heroku vs Vercel 12'00: Major considerations in infrastructure-as-code 3) Techstack of Platform.sh 26'00: Deployments in Python 36'00: React vs PhP 4) Datacenters and the environment 39'00: Reduction of carbon emissions 40'20: Main considerations for data centres 5) Three favourite books and startups 1'08: Probable Listen to find out more

  11. 11/21/2024

    #8 Marc-Henri Gires, cofounder of Defacto

    Marc Henri Gires is one of the cofounders of Defacto, fintech leader in France for B2B financing. It offers short-term financing for SMEs with an API-first approach. This episode is in French. MARC HENRI GIRES Marco is cofounder of Defacto. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique and spent many years in the US before returning to France to co-found Defacto. Defacto solves companies' working capital requirements, offering business the ability to repay its suppliers early and automate payments. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/   IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with March Henri about: 1) The beginnings of Defacto and core founder traits 2) Defacto's value proposition and positioning within B2B fintech 3) Defacto's techstack 4) Three favourite books and startups Listen to find out more

  12. 09/26/2024

    #7 Louis Chatriot, CEO and cofounder of Alma

    Louis Chatriot is CEO of Alma, fintech leader in France of BNPL, having raised Series C by top investors (Northzone, Headline etc.) This episode is in French. LOUIS CHATRIOT Louis is CEO at Alma, the fintech leader in France of BNPL. Louis talks about his background at Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford,  meeting his cofounder, key painpoints and triggers in BNPL, and technical tech stack at Alma (details below). Prior to founding Alma, Louis was former GM of Stripe in Italy. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/   IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Louis Chatriot about: 1) The beginnings of Alma and core founder traits - his background at Ecole Polytechnique//Stanford - Alma's 'earned secret' of becoming a leader in a sector which is inherently less 'sexy' (9'00) - how Louis met his cofounder & key traits in founders  (12'00) - the importance of being a good salesperson (23'00) 2) Alma's value proposition and positioning within fintech - triggers of debt and overspending (30'00) - fraud prevention and modelling fraud scores (40'00) 3) Alma's techstack - Supervised learning and classification for insurance and fraud prevention (46'00) - Data drift (48'00) - Databases (61'00): PostGres vs MongoDB - Techstack (67'00): React, Python, Java pros and cons 4) Three favourite books and startups Listen to find out more

  13. 08/01/2024

    #6 Ruben Fiszel, CEO of Windmill.dev

    Ruben Fiszel is CEO of Windmill, early-stage France-based devtool player. RUBEN FISZEL Ruben is CEO at Windmill.dev, a leading France-based devtool company. Ruben led engineering at Palantir before that, and is a computer science graduate from EPFL and Stanford University. Ruben scaled Windmill as part of YCombinator's programme. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/   IN THIS EPISODE As key highlights, Ruben talks about his engineering background at EPFL/Stanford and Palantir; his time building out engineering teams at Palantir, what motivated him to start Windmill and what Windmill does specifically. Louis, Margaux and Ruben also distributed systems, open-source software, and also discuss Spark, Databricks, Airflow, Typescript and lots of other cool stuff.

  14. 07/03/2024

    #5 Dave Kellogg, former Service Cloud GM at Salesforce (2024 relaunch episode)

    Dave Kellogg is former Service Cloud GM at Salesforce and currently EiR at Balderton Capital. Dave shares about his time at Salesforce and structuring tech teams, including engineering ratios one can follow. DAVE KELLOGG Dave Kellogg is former Service Cloud GM at Salesforce and currently EiR at Balderton Capital. He is an angel investor of Alation, was advisor of Tableau Software, and current advisor of Pigment, amongst others. MARGAUX WEHR & LOUIS ABRAHAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/   IN THIS EPISODE As key highlights, Dave talks about his background GM of Service Cloud of Salesforce (0'00); what made Salesforce successful (11'15), how tech teams were structured (13'00); detailed Salesforce tech team ratios (17'20), key painpoints in structuring tech teams (23'45), French vs US teams (35'00) + going global. Margaux gives her parallel perspective of team structures at Amazon, and Louis his perspective on AI teams and ratios (20'30)

  15. 06/24/2024

    #4 Julien Callede, co-fondateur de Made.com (2019)

    Nous avons eu la chance de rencontrer Julien Callede, co-fondateur de Made.com. Made.com, c'est en quelques sortes la deuxième révolution de l'ameublement, après Ikea. Lancé à Londres en 2010 à Londres, Made.com est le leader européen du mobilier design en ligne. Comment l'équipe a-t-elle réussi son pari fou de vous faire acheter votre canapé sur internet ? Ecoutez cet épisode pour tout savoir ! JULIEN CALLEDE Julien Callede est le co-fondateur de Made.com, aux côtés de Ning Li, Chloé Macintosh et Brent Hoberman (fondateur de LastMinute.com). Aujourd'hui, Made.com c'est plus de 200M€ de chiffre d'affaires par an, dans une dizaine de pays. SUR CET EPISODE Sur cet épisode, Julien explique tout d'abord pourquoi ils se sont lancés dans l'aventure Made.com. (2:00) Puis il revient sur la proposition de valeur: offrir du mobilier de design haut de gamme, à prix abordable et sans intermédiaire (5:30), sur les débuts de Made.com (9:30) et sur le système de pré-vente pour optimiser les stocks. (12:30) Il évoque la conception des produits et la collaboration avec des designers indépendants et leur rémunération. (16:30) Suite au modèle 100% en ligne, Julien revient sur la décision d'ouvrir des showrooms qui a suscité débat au sein de l'entreprise (24:00) puis évoque les problèmes liés à "l'attribution marketing" entre les différents canaux online et offline (32:00). Julien raconte ensuite sa rencontre avec Ning Li sur les bancs d'HEC et la composition de équipe fondatrice. (35:00) ainsi que ces projets actuels, après avoir quitté ses fonctions opérationnelles, tout comme Ning et Chloé. (39:00) Julien dévoile la DNVB - Digital Native Vertical Brand - qu'il admire le plus actuellement : Loom (45:00). Enfin, Julien conseille aux entrepreneurs français de ne pas penser qu'au marché français au début de l'aventure. (48:00) Ecoutez cet épisode pour en savoir plus !

  16. 11/24/2019

    #3 Julia Faure, co-fondatrice de Loom

    Nous avons eu la chance de rencontrer Julia Faure, la co-fondatrice de Loom, aux côtés de Guillaume Declair. Loom est une marque de vêtements qui a pour mission de créer des vêtements durables et qui abîment moins l'environnement. Tout ça à prix raisonnables. Loom prône une mode "plus calme", loin de la Fast Fashion et de ses dérives. En effet, la mode est considérée comme la deuxième ou troisième industrie la plus polluante. JULIA FAURE Julia est ingénieure agronome de formation (AgroParisTech) et elle a un master en étude de genres de l'université Autonoma de Madrid. En 2016 Julia a co-fondé Loom, une marque de vêtements les plus durables possibles, qui a pour ligne directrice de préserver l'humain et l'écologie. Julia a une obsession pour l'industrie de la mode et du textile et cherche à rendre public tout ce qui ne tourne pas rond dans cette industrie. SUR CET EPISODE Sur cet épisode du podcast, Julia nous parle tout d'abord de la naissance de Loom et des débuts de l'aventure. Elle évoque la communauté qui est un facteur clef dans le succès de Loom. En effet, la marque fait notamment participé sa communauté dès la conception des vêtements via des formulaires. Julia décrit ensuite les autres étapes du processus de confection d'un vêtement Loom, et en particulier la phase de test qui est fondamentale. Julia revient sur ses expériences professionnelles passées : notamment chez Amazon en Espagne où Julia a eu un déclic et à La Ruche qui dit Oui ! Ensuite, elle évoque les engagements de Loom et leur mode de communication avec de nombreux contenus informatifs sur le blog "la mode à l'envers". Puis nous nous sommes penchés sur les actions menées par les acteurs de la Fast Fashion, qui reste très insuffisantes. Enfin, Julia nous a raconté leur impressionnante levée de fonds via la plateforme d'investissement durable Lita.co (avec 500 000€ investis par 600 actionnaires individuels) ainsi que les projets futurs pour Loom.

  17. 11/03/2019

    #2 Thomas Effantin, CEO de Trusk

    Thomas Effantin est le fondateur et CEO de Trusk, la jeune pousse française qui innove dans le secteur de la logistique. Trusk est le leader dans la livraison du dernier kilomètre . Trusk vous met à disposition un véhicule utilitaire avec chauffeur et manutentionnaire dans l'heure. La startup est née après une première expérience dans le stockage. Sur cet épisode, Thomas parle d'abord de l'origine du nom "Trusk" et de l'anecdote liée à l'achat du nom de domaine. (1:20) Puis de la création de Trusk, qui est en réalité issue d'un "pivot", suite à sa précédente expérience dans le stockage. (3:00) Thomas revient sur la forte croissance que connaît Trusk, principalement boostée par le B2B (5:20). Thomas revient aussi sur les relations particulières entre startups et grands groupes. (7:40) Il partage les coulisses du fonctionnement de Trusk (10:30). Thomas évoque son parcours (13:00), les difficultés rencontrées (16:20), les anecdotes des débuts (20:40), mais aussi ses plans pour continuer à faire croître Trusk, à la fois en France et à l'international. (25:00) Pour conclure l'entretien, Thomas nous a fait part du livre qu'il l'a le plus marqué: Shoe Dog, de Phil Knight, le fondateur de Nike (26:20), avant de donner des conseils pour les aspirants entrepreneurs (27:00).

  18. 10/29/2019

    #1 Raphaël Vullierme, CEO de Luko

    Sur cet épisode, Raphaël évoque tout d'abord les problèmes auxquels Luko répond (2'). Il raconte les débuts avec la mise en point des capteurs intelligents avant leur pivot vers l'assurance (5'). Nous avons interrogé Raphaël sur la croissance que connaît Luko (7:40) ainsi que sur les stratégies d'acquisition clients mises en place (8:30). Il est revenu sur son parcours (12') avant Luko puis sur les raisons du succès de son association avec Benoît (14') Plus d'infos sur startup-tribune.com