Comment Comment by tmilard Today in France the most active internet provider "FREE" CEO Xavier Niel, got rich at the time of Minitel...He came from the east poor suburb of Paris and got suddendly rich by making 'minitel web pages'.Later he reinvested all its money to build one of the biggest internet provider : free. It made it a billionaire.And later again ( 7 years ago) France biggest startup investor with kima venture https://www.kimaventures.comSo yes, Minitel was in a way the start of France starupnNation parent tmilard 5 years ago
He came from the east poor suburb of Paris and got suddendly rich by making 'minitel web pages'.
Later he reinvested all its money to build one of the biggest internet provider : free. It made it a billionaire.
And later again ( 7 years ago) France biggest startup investor with kima venture https://www.kimaventures.com
So yes, Minitel was in a way the start of France starupnNation