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Published February 13, 2025

Charles Gorintin is cofounder of Alan and Mistral, two of France’s largest billion-$ businesses, in healthcare and AI respectively.

We talk with Charles’ background at ENS/Stanford, rapid product launches, use of AI/LLMs, Charles’ favourite books and startups, and playing competitive chess, amongst many other things

This episode is in French.

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CHARLES GORINTIN

Charles is cofounder of Alan, alongisde  Jean-Charles Samuelian.

We talk to Charles about his begininings, his studies at ENS and Stanford, and how he went on to start 2 of the largest businesses, with a focus on Alan.
Charles is also a keen chess-player in his free time.

IN THIS EPISODE

In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Charles Gorintin about:

1) Charles’ background, Franco-US education and time spent at Meta in the US 
– time spent at ENS and Stanford
– background in machine learning

2)  Alan’s huge traction and fundraising rounds
– 6 funding rounds in the past 6 years

3) Alan’s product launches over time and how they prioritised things
– launch of Mo, Alan Walk etc

4) Charles’ use of AI and LLMs and internal techstack built 
– creation of ad campaigns in a few seconds

5) Charles’ 3 favourite books and startups (besides Alan and Mistral!)

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Marcel Proust)

Blackforest Labs
Scenario
Twin

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