Xavier Niel Quotes
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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