Jean-David Blanc | |
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| Born | 27 May 1968 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, film producer, writer, jazz musician, investor |
| Known for | AlloCiné, Molotov, Three Days in Nepal (book) |
| Children | 3 |
Jean-David Blanc (born 27 May 1968) in Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), is a French entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, writer and jazz musician, founder of AlloCiné and Molotov. He is France's thirteenth favorite entrepreneur according to the 2022 ranking drawn up by Forbes France.
Born into a family of musicians (his father was the violinist Serge Blanc), he took an early interest in computing, a nascent field in France at the time. As a teenager, he created video games for the Apple II and sold programming services. At 15, he co-founded the bulletin board system Futura, before launching his first company, Crystal Technologies. By the time he passed his baccalauréat, he was already running a company with around fifteen employees.
His career really took off with the creation of AlloCiné at the age of 22, an innovative cinema information service by telephone later launched on the Internet, which became a notable success and still is today. After selling AlloCiné, he launched Molotov in 2016, a streaming distribution service for television channels, which also became a rapid success before being acquired by fuboTV in 2021. Jean-David Blanc became an influential angel investor, investing in a number of startups, including Meetic, Stripe and Square. He is also involved in artistic and literary activities. In 2012, following a paramotor accident, he wrote his first book, Three Days in Nepal, published by HarperCollins.