Pavel Durov

to retain sanity is because he moved to Dubai and started a new company, which is incredibly successful.

And now he's enriching this city, which we're in right now, with his great ideas and creativity.

You have to cherish these people.

Yeah.

But I guess the French public or some part of the French public was misled.

And I don't know when, perhaps since the time of the French Revolution, to believe that entrepreneurs are somehow their enemies.

They're the evil rich people that are the cause of all problems.

If only you could make the rich share their ill-gotten wealth with the rest of the population, then every problem will be magically solved.

In reality, though, a lot of these people that are starting such companies with fire in their eyes are sacrificing their lives, their livelihood, their working 20 hours a day, their experiencing immense stress.

in order to fulfill their vision and bring value and good to the society around them.

They create jobs, they create great services, they create great goods, they make your country grow, they make your people proud.

You have to cherish them.

But what does the system do to them?

Because perhaps there was somebody in the

tax authority that decided to advance their career and perhaps you know was too ambitious and not too smart so as a result the company was destroyed

And now the same entrepreneur, by the way, who we talked to, is invited to come back to France.

He's being offered really good terms.

He said, you're going to open this new venue on Champs-Élysées.

We're going to give you the best location.

We're going to fund part of it.