CTO.Pizza

The daily challenges of CTOs and tech leads explained around a pizza.

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Not one CTO is like the others— Mario Matar (Monbanquet.fr)

I studied computer science at UPMC (Paris 6), and then worked for 2 years at Sopra Steria on projects for the police and social security. They were big projects with a massive architecture, so very in

CTO Pizza Live Session #4 : 15/11

We are BACK with a live event on November 15th !

Hypotheses need to be tested — Jean Lebrument (Brigad.co)

I studied at Epitech and worked in a bunch of startups. I met Florent about 5 years ago, while I was managing a tech team. I moved to California for 7 months, started a company in the music industry b

Your most precious resource is your engineers’ time — Diarmuid Gill (SVP Product Engineering…

Mozzarella di buffala at Mamma Primi

CTO Pizza — At Web2Day in Nantes on June 14th

It’s been a little while since I posted here as I’ve had to slow down a bit on the pizzas, but we’ll be back to full speed soon.

We never communicate enough — Stéphane Alizon (Younited Credit)

Younited Credit facilitates financial transactions between lenders and borrowers and raised 103M€

Make your employees proud of their work — Jérôme Nadaud (SensioLabs)

I don’t have a tech background. I studied biology in Toulouse and lived in Spain for about 25 years before moving to France to work as I knew there weren’t a lot of options for work if I stayed in Spa

CTO Pizza Live #3 — Let’s talk recruitment

CTO Pizza is coming back with a live event in March at NUMA Paris.

Treat people like adults — Dimitri Baeli (Lesfurets.com)

Lefurets is a leading insurance comparison engine in France, with a team of 80. Dimitri is their CTO.

Don’t solve problems you don’t have — Justin Ziegler (Priceminister)

Justin Ziegler is the tech founder of Priceminister, a marketplace that was sold to Rakuten for 250M euros in 2010

Programming translates concepts to reality — Laurent Cerveau (Zenly)

Zenly is the social map app beloved by millions of teens around the globe and got acquired by Snapchat in 2017. Laurent Cerveau is their

You need to be crazy to be a CTO — Vincent Oliveira (Tiller Systems)

Tiller Systems is a 100+ employees startup that raised 4M$ and provides point of sale software to restaurants. Vincent is their CTO.

Be pragmatic — Antoine Porte (Lydia)

Lydia is a mobile payment platform that raised 13M$ and has 40 employees — Antoine is the co-founder and CTO

What keeps you awake at night? — Francis Nappez (Blablacar)

Blablacar is one of the main french Unicorns, with more than 420+ employees. Francis is the CTO and co-founder of this carpooling company

Autonomy through tangible objectives - Cyril Morcrette (Mappy.com)

Mappy is a 75 employees company part from a big corporation (SoLocal Group) and with a lot of history. Cyril manages 65 people.

CTO Pizza Live Session #2 at NUMA Paris

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Learn how to learn — Pascal Corpet (Bayes Impact)

Bayes Impact is a social NGO with 21 people in France and the US, using big data to make an impact

Good developers need to feel challenged — Benjamin Netter (Lendix)

Lendix is a crowlending company of about 60 employees that raised 27M$ in funding

Modularity is key — Frédéric Rivain (Dashlane)

Dashlane is one of the leading password managers in the world, and raised 52.5M$ with a team of 110

CTO Pizza Live Session #1 at NUMA Paris

Early October at NUMA Paris, a live session of CTO Pizza with great CTOs on stage and free pizza!

Better ask for forgiveness than for permission — Matthieu Blumberg (Criteo)

Criteo is a company with fulgurant growth that went through an IPO in 2013 and has about 2600 employees

The team has complete discretion to reach their objectives — Julien Masson (SAV Group)

SAV Group is a 20 people company (size doubled in a year) that raised 6.5M$ and that edits reverse logistics SaaS platforms

I started on a friday morning and had to fix the production database in the afternoon — Jean-Louis…

Jean-Louis is the Director of infrastructure at leboncoin, the biggest classifieds site in France with 26M unique visitors per month.

There are 3 types of CTOs — Clément Sauvage (Les Tontons Livreurs)

Les Tontons Livreurs is a 7 people company offering an adaptative “Man with a van” service and planning on raising funds soon

Validate the human fit with the team before anything — Pierre Gielen (Captain Contrat, GFP)

Pierre was the CTO of Captain Contrat (1M raised) and is now founding the Global Fintech Platform

I had to jump on the train at full speed — Valentin Baudot (YouScribe)

Youscribe is a 10 people company that raised 4.5M$, and Valentin is their brand new CTO

Going from a retail business to a global tech company — Julien Mangeard (vente-privee)

vente-privee.com is a 4500+ retail business that is reorganizing itself to become a global tech leader and compete with the GAFA

Keep moving while rebuilding the architecture — Thomas Seres (Pandacraft.com)

Pandacraft is a 25 people company that raised 3.6M$ to sell educational kits for kids

I had never met my cofounder in real life when we started — Anil Arvindam (Ideaphora)

Ideaphora is a 4 years old, 5 people EdTech startup based in Portland (USA) and Bengalore (India) that teaches India kids how to learn

Our business model can change every 3 months — Nicolas Silberman (Wellcut, 20Minutes, Mediapart…

Nicolas was the CTO of two main french media sites (20minutes and Mediapart) and has now founded Wellcut.tv and CTO Partners

We made all the mistakes during the 2000’s internet bubble — Benoit Hediard (Agorapulse)

AgoraPulse is a Social Media CRM platform with 34 employees, bootstrapped and that finally found its market after 10 years

Looks like we’re missing the Abstract class

Looks like we’re missing the Abstract class

A non-hierarchical organization where everybody can be heard — Charles Gorintin (Alan.eu)

Alan is the first health insurance of the digital era in France, that raised 12M€ in less than a year of existence

Professional love at first sight — Julien Balmont (Zenchef)

Zenchef is a marketing and booking system for restaurants, that raised 8.5M€ and has 44 employees

We met and realized we had the same idea — Pierre Klobb (Needelp)

Needelp is a trustfully “jobbing” digital marketplace of 11 people that just raised 1.5M€

It all started with an SMS service — Romain Abidonn (Crème de la Crème)

Crème de la Crème is a 19 people startup founded in 2015 that raised 1M€ and matches top schools students with freelance projects

Managing risks linked to company growth — Marc G Gauthier (Drivy.com)

Drivy is the leading car rental marketplace in Europe, raised 40+M$ and has 90+ employees

Switching markets because of regulations — Lars Klein (Wingly.io)

Wingly is an 8 people innovative flight sharing platform that connects travelers and hobby pilots

Never lower the bar — Nicolas De Nayer (Doctolib.fr)

Doctolib is a 300+ employees online booking platform for doctors that raised 50M+ euros

The product is as good as your team — Hervé Lourdin (VideDressing.com)

Videdressing, a community of fashion lovers, operates an online marketplace for the sale of pre-loved fashion and luxury goods

I only hire people smarter than me — Nicolas Baron (MeilleursAgents.com)

MeilleursAgents is a price estimation tool for real estate, that employs 130 people and just raised 7M in Series B

Embracing change — Romain Kuzniak (OpenClassrooms)

OpenClassrooms is a 60+ employees online learning platform with a tech team of 14

It’s just more of everything-Stan Sarr (Koober)

Challenges faced by the CTO of a 2 year old & 8 people startup that summarizes books into 20 min reads

Find the right people — Nicolas Cosme (Tripndrive)

The job of Nicolas, CTO of a 15 people startup that rents out cars on a Java Spring Boot stack

A passion for numbers & technology-Emmanuel Derozin (Ma Coiffeuse Afro)

Challenges faced by the CTO of a 4 people startup founded in 2016

The CTO role, as multifaceted as a pineapple pizza

I am currently the CTO of NUMA, one of the big players in the startup scene in Europe. The role makes me meet a lot of bright people, some