Blue Dots Partners

Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D.

Best-selling author of Aligning the Dots, acclaimed TEDx speaker, growth expert, venture capitalist, CEO, entrepreneur, Dr. Philippe Bouissou has worked in Silicon Valley for over three decades. He is currently the CEO of Blue Dots Partners, LLC, a Palo Alto-based management consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses grow faster, using a universal, data-driven and prescriptive methodology.

Philippe was the founder and CEO of G2i, Inc. a Unix software company that was acquired. He then became Senior Vice President at Matra Hachette Multimedia, Inc., leading business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion high-tech and diversified media company.

He later founded and ran Apple’s eCommerce business and grew its revenue from zero to $350 million under Steve Jobs (generated over $75 billion in 2023). Inspired from his time with Steve Jobs, Philippe's accomplishments continued to skyrocket, including investing $43 million as a Venture Capitalist with double-digit cash-on-cash returns. Philippe served on 25 Boards of Directors, including three now, and led over 210 management-consulting projects.

Philippe graduated from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a BS in Mathematics, a MS in Physics and a Ph.D. in non-linear physics in chaos theory.

Posts by Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D.

The zabulous story of Zappos

In 1998, Nick Swinmurn was frustrated because he could not put his hands on…

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How to execute a solid internal alignment?

While the four axes of external alignment in our A4 Precision Alignment™ methodology are the keys of the puzzle to optimize the growth rate…

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The three laws of business

Like thermodynamics that is governed by three main laws, most businesses have to follow three laws as well…

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The anatomy of growth

A few weeks ago, a woman in park was asking me: how old is your dog? I answered tongue-in-cheek “35 years…”

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So, tell me: why I should buy?

Over the past three decades, I have met over 2,600 CEOs. For a long time, I used to ask them the same question…

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Sometimes, there is no there there.

There is a company, you probably have never heard of called JNJ Mobile…

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