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I founded 7 consumer tech startups around my lifestyle and passions and ended up in the wine business. I started with Ski Tour Operating for student groups at 22 - probably because I didn’t want to leave the student life too early and I’m a mountain fan, sold that company 5 years later to the French travel leader at the time, Nouvelles Frontières. To keep myself busy, I geeked out meanwhile coding a bus transportation software which eventually became a startup on its own and sold it later in 2004. When the internet became a big thing in 1999, I decided to create the largest booking website for ski vacations. I lead skihorizon.com for more than 10 years until it became the industry leader with 300k customers. A bit bored by online travel and Europe, my larger ambitions took me from France to San Francisco with Recommend, a recommendation app which was praised and won several awards to tackle the long overdue friends recommendations problem, but eventually failed raising enough money. I learnt a lesson (or two) and decided to combine all my prior skills to build the next generation of tech enabled wine businesses, another of my passions. I created Palate Club in 2018, which is the most advanced taste matching engine using AI optimizing wine selections and educate your personal taste. My current focus is Winechain, a new marketplace for fine wine using blockchain. If you’re into fine wine or tech, please reach out.