Gilles Babinet won his first million euros

Is no rest for the brave. Gilles Babinet, the happy founder of Musiwave, a company specialized in music services for mobile phones sold for $ 129 million to Openwave in January 2006, and became a "serial chairman." Thirty-nine years, there not less three new companies on the road. He who loves to stunning music and party until the morning, then plunged into a swimming pool to align kilometres and erase the fatigue of the night, puts music in all its projects. As of the video clips on mobile phone with Eyeka. The company has been lift EUR 4 million and is led by Frank Perrier, a veteran of Corbis.

With his friend Philippe Ulrich, founder of Cryo Networks, working in secret on what he imagines to be the successor of the MP3 digital compression format. The company is called MXP4 SARL. He also co-founded Digicompanion SA, a platform to broadcast content for major brands. "It is a contractor, he knows recruiting, he knows communicate its vision and choose a niche that it will be able to orchestrate" notes Eric Huet, general partner at Ventech which was supported during the difficult moments of Musiwave.

The air a little dreamy, gentle and kind, Gilles Babinet, height and blond, believes in its projects. "Because I believe, I accept that they are questioned." From here, a project becomes alive and it may take a lot of different forms, but it is indestructible.

An atypical course

Both energy building contrasts with a dilettante adolescence. Came from a long line of Polytechnique, he left school without IBC (but will later get it in free candidate) will install a few years to the Morocco as a fisherman. Guided mountaineering, he returned to France and enters the building. It will be those who install the lights in the dome of the CNIT defense. But the salary he ICES poorly. Soon, he co-founded climbing industry, specializing in building height interventions. The company will be quickly profitable and mark the beginning of a long series of entrepreneurship.

Six months at a design school will change its trajectory. He met Clément battle, with whom he created Absolut Design. It is to them to be dustbin of the Metro. "It is a charismatic boy, a little original, charming and at the same time very rigorously," notes Clément battle, which today develops the design Department of the centre of exploration of France Telecom very soon, they are interested in Web, software and site design, which led to the creation of Absolut Media. The Absolut group will be assigned to Euro RSCG in 2000. Gilles Babinet won his first million euros. He will lose by investing in companies that will crumble in the stock market and not will be even more than what pay the SCIF. Fortunately, France Telecom had entrusted Absolut a study on mobile music. There will be born Musiwave. "It was hard, never had money, there was no techno." But I was determined. "The key to success, it is believe, believe and believe", reflects Gilles Babinet. To escape the stress, he takes refuge, at night, in writing a novel. Who could possibly become a film.

He is now chairman, is that he wants to be a bit of space to breathe. "I prefer focused on customers, strategy, technological issues that I control." After the sport, music, business, there is still an area that he wishes to invest, it is the associative. But "it is still a fantasy," he said.