Comment bâtir une entreprise de 1 milliard de CA sans lever 1€ ?

Over €1 billion in revenue, €0 raised, 100% bootstrapped. Yes, it's possible. Meet Olivier Brouhant, the founder of Mantu, who managed to build a company with €1 billion in revenue, operating in over 60 countries with over 12,000 talented employees. A multi-billion dollar failure, death threats, lawsuits, wiretaps and private investigators, a financial crisis, and being locked down in China before the rest of the world… Olivier has experienced it all in 20 years of entrepreneurship. And if you don't know Olivier, you're missing out on a truly great entrepreneur. He's a goldmine of learning. And I had the chance to interview him on Face au Vide (Facing the Void). The most surprising thing? Olivier doesn't like risk. Quite unusual for an entrepreneur who has built a global group. In this episode, he tells me about the riskiest situations he's faced. No holds barred. No taboos. But what struck me most is that Olivier is an unconventional entrepreneur. His vision of entrepreneurship can be summed up in one sentence: 95% execution/team, 5% idea. An idea is worthless without the right people to execute it. Example: He experienced a $500 billion failure. In 2017, before the release of ChatGPT, Mantu was investing over €2 million per year and mobilizing 20 people to build an AI in its R&D lab. Six years before ChatGPT. The idea was good. The timing was perfect. But one mistake changed everything: the wrong person leading the project. A rare conversation, and an exceptional episode with this exceptional entrepreneur whom I greatly admire. Go check out this new episode, available on all platforms!