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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 death of misalignment

In our First Monday newsletter last November, I wrote about the life and death of alignment…

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Every company is in the business of manufacturing delight

On Thursday, March 31st, in Los Angeles at SpaceX, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla introduced the Model 3 to the world…

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Why entrepreneurs and VCs are not always aligned

Entrepreneurs and VCs live on different planets and sometimes seem to be subject to different laws of physics. This “impedance mismatch” creates misalignments that…

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The life and death of alignment

In July of this year, something pretty special happened in Ottawa, Illinois. On their 13th attempt, 164 skydivers jumped from 7 well choreographed aircraft…

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Why alignment works — and the story behind our company name

There’s a beginning to everything, and this post is the beginning of our Blue Dots blog. When John Orcutt and I founded Blue Dots, …

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