The Questions, Answered

Because it is the same problem seen from two sides. At iBazar, which eBay absorbed in 2001¹⁰, I learned how a platform connects people who have never met and gives them reasons to trust each other. In retail, in Shanghai and in France, I learned what a few days of cash mean to a business.

Today I am building an infrastructure that links digital capital to real-world assets: on one side capital that looks for a sound use, on the other real businesses that need short-term credit.

I sold Levillair Group, which ran them, to a Chinese retail group. The new owner rebranded the bakeries, which is why the PAUL name is no longer present in mainland China¹¹.

In February 2019 the French official bulletin published a judgment of a commercial court concerning me⁸. It orders a measure of French insolvency law called faillite personnelle, which restricts a person from managing companies, for eight years¹².

It was ordered in the proceedings of one company: Hardi Investissements, my former holding company in France.

From one supplier invoice. When the holding company was sold, an invoice from a supplier was left unpaid. The proceedings grew out of that invoice.

Yes. It has been paid, and I hold the letter that confirms it.

Eight years from the judgment.

French law allows the person concerned to ask the court to lift the measure once the debts have been paid¹².

The company was placed in simplified judicial liquidation in 2016⁶ and struck off the commercial register on 1 December 2021⁹. It no longer exists.