EUROPEANCEO – Feb 3 – Didier Rappaport is the man behind the second largest video platform, Dailymotion, and now online dating app Happn that secured $8M of investment last year. The app is available in Paris, but also in London and Berlin.
Q: How did you get people to believe in your product?
A: When you show to investors that you are able to scale a business in three different cities in Europe, it means that you know how to scale.
Q: How does it make money?
A: It is a freemium model.
Q: You also invest in many start-ups. What do you look for in a new business?
A: The idea, but the team who will execute it is even more important.
Q: What’s the next big thing?
A: Everything that will appear will be mobile. It could be wearable technologies or objects.
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