
Julien Codorniou… Don’t know him yet ?
In 2000, the guy used to be an intern in a famous parisian incubator, Tocamak… Later, after business school, he joined the ETF Group as a very young VC. Because he felt he needed to become more savvy in numbers, he became a financial auditor with the entrepreneurs practice at Ernst & Young for 2 years, auditing tech companies. And because he thought that entrepreneurship was not promoted in France as it should, he went on to inspire and co-write one of the best business books this year: the kelbook, or the story behind the great Kelkoo rise.
And because he was not at the center of the action anymore, he joined Microsoft France a few months ago as a business development manager bridging the tech worlds, the entrepreneurs world, and the venture capital world again. Not even a month into the job, a picture of him with Steve Ballmer (Microsoft’s CEO showed up discreetly on his photo stream on Flickr; it’s disappeared dude…). and 3 months into the job, he co-organized a private conference for noone else than Mr. Bill Gates here in Paris, bringing in 500 people in the industry.
At a recent conference of entrepreneurs and VCs at SGAM, his boss, the CEO of Microsoft France, named him as the single point of contact for all entrepreneurs and VCs with Microsoft… Proof in this footage:
Lastly, the world’s #1 blogger, Mr. Robert Scoble himself is giving him a little Google Juice on his blog…
Weakenesses ? his addiction to his mobile phone, he suck at squash, too much sun tan for a serious workaholic, and I beat him on Mario Kart last week!
Oh, and I forgot. He’s 27.