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Philippe Bouissou

With 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Philippe has held CEO and executive positions in several companies. As a Venture Capitalist, he successfully invested $43M and generated double-digit IRR. He led dozens of management-consulting projects and served on the board of 14 companies.

Prior to Blue Dots, Philippe co-founded and was Executive Chairman of evenVoice, a mobile real-time consumer empowerment company and Executive Board Member of Pave, a peer-to-peer funding platform for Millenniums.

For over half a decade, Philippe co-managed the Milestone Group, a management consulting firm serving over 220 Clients. Before Milestone, Philippe was General Partner for seven years with two venture capital firms: Allegis Capital ($500M under management) and Ventech ($200M under management). Prior to being a Venture Capitalist, Philippe created and was Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce group at Apple where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350M. Before joining Apple, Philippe was Senior VP at Matra Hachette Multimedia, where he led US business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company. He previously founded and was the CEO of G2i, Inc. a Unix software company that was later acquired by Matra.

Philippe graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, a Master degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in chaos theory.

Posts by Philippe Bouissou

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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