Tariq Krim (born October 25, 1972, in

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) is a French entrepreneur, creator of

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and the founder of

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, a personal cloud content computing platform and Joli OS, a free

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based on the Jolicloud platform. In 2008, he was the first French national named by the ''

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'' as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. He was appointed Chevalier de l’

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(Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in 2011.

Early years

Tariq Krim spent his childhood in the historic area of Paris,

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. His father was an economist and his mother a teacher. Passionate about computers from an early age (he was given his first computer at 10, and created his first

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server at 12 years old), Krim went on to study physics at the

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and obtained his

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from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST).

Career

Journalism

In 1994, after meeting with Jean-Francois Bizot, Krim became a writer for '' Novamag'' and wrote articles about cyberculture. He continued his career in journalism for the financial daily ''

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''. First based in Paris, then in

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(he opened the newspaper's

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branch), Krim published various articles on the Internet industry.

Entrepreneurship

In 1999, Krim decided to move on from writing about internet innovation. That year, he founded what would become L8Rmedia, a consulting and publishing company specializing in digital media. Its first branch was in

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; he later expanded to

. Its main online publication, GenerationMP3 (formerly "MPTrois.com"), attracts 1.5 million readers per month. and pioneered the use of

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in France. In 2005, Krim created Netvibes with Florent Frémont, a developer friend. The personalized dashboard publishing platform claims over 10 million users worldwide, half of whom are in the

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. In 2008, Krim left as the head of the company to create Jolicloud in 2009, co-founded with Romain Huet, the company's CTO. Their vision was to combine cloud technology with a simple user interface. Krim first developed Joli OS, a free operating system, which enabled users to optimise low-cost devices or recycle older computers. In 2012, Jolicloud launched an

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-based cloud platform. Jolicloud is backed by $4.2 million in

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funding from

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, formed by Kazaa and

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founders

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and

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, and Mangrove Capital Partners.

Mentoring

In 2008, Krim co-founded ISAI, "the French tech entrepreneurs' fund", which provides seed capital for web and mobile technology startups. ISAI's co-founders are all members of France's digerati: Orianne Garcia, founder of Terrafemina.com; Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder of PriceMinister; Ouriel Ohayon, founder of TechCrunch France and AppsFire; Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, CEO of

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; and Stéphane Treppoz, Chairman of the Executive Board of Sarenza. This combined effort has helped launch websites such as co-voiturage.fr and InstantLuxe.com. Krim has said that he has a "passion for building highly disruptive new products".

Net freedom

He advised Adami, a French civil society that allocates the rights of performers. In 2004 he published a study called "

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, a New Business Model for Music", in which he cites another study by the French Directorate of Economic Forecasting and Analysis, which concluded that "no systematic correlation can be made between downloading and the state of the music industry".

Thought leadership

Krim is a speaker at global technology and media conferences and summits. He regularly appears on mainstream media. In 2008, he was awarded the

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for Business Creation Prize by

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and its engineering association (AIST). Krim is one of six French personalities to have been selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the

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. Krim served on the

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as a vice president from 2013 to 2016.

References

External links

* Tariq Krim personal website i
English
* Tariq Krim thinktank Code Souverain i
French
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