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Re:Startups Founded by French Entrepreneurs by beagle3 on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:35AM (#7088968)
Lots of respect to jbk - though it's kind of weird that the author listed jbk's "VLC" (non startup) in the subtitle.

And ... how can this list not mention Fabrice Bellard, without whom neither QEMU (essential to KVM and VirtualBox), nor FFMPEG (very significantly behind the scenes in VLC, Handbrake, YouTube, Chrome and just about any other media related software) would have been. If you have used the internet for 60 minutes today, it is quite likely you've used a Bellard derived product.

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Re:Startups Founded by French Entrepreneurs by shrikant on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:54AM (#7089212)
Bellard: Prolific hacker? Yes. Entrepreneur? Not so much...

(As an aside: a former French entreprenuer that immediately comes to mind is Jean-Louis Gassée who founded Be Inc.)

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Re:Startups Founded by French Entrepreneurs by liam_boogar on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:46AM (#7089429)
You're definitely right - I chose to mention the "VLC" project instead of Videolabs in the subtitle, as I felt people would recognize it more. Hence the explanation in the text.

The list is in no way complete, nor indicative of any 'ranking' - I think I could write a similar list once a week for the next year and not give everyone their due respect.

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