Tariq Krim

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tariq Krim
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Oct 25, 1972(1972-10-25)
Age	52
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Libra

Tariq Krim Biography

Tariq Krim is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on October 25, 1972 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Tariq Krim (born on the 25th of October 1972 from Paris) is a French serial entrepreneur and creator of Netvibes and is currently the director and founder of Jolicloud, a cloud-based personal platform for computing content as well as Joli OS, which is a free operating system built in Jolicloud. Jolicloud platform. He became the first French national to be named as a result of the MIT Technology Review as one of the most innovative 35 people around the world, younger than 35. He was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts and of Lettres (Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in the year 2011.

As of 2005 Krim developed Netvibes together with Florent Fremont as a developer-friend. The platform for publishing personalized dashboards boasts more than 10 million users around the world, with most of whom reside located in the United States.

In 2008, Krim co-founded ISAI, “the French tech entrepreneurs’ fund”, which provides seed capital for web and mobile technology startups. ISAI’s co- founders are all members of France’s digerati: Orianne Garcia, founder of Terrafemina.com; Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder of PriceMinister; Ouriel Ohayon, founder of TechCrunch France and AppsFire; Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, CEO of Virgin Mobile; and Stéphane Treppoz, Chairman of the Executive Board of Sarenza. This combined effort has helped launch websites such as co- voiturage.fr and InstantLuxe.com. Krim has said that he has a “passion for building highly disruptive new products”.

In 2008, Krim left as the head of the company to create Jolicloud in 2009, co- founded with Romain Huet, the company’s CTO. Their vision is to combine cloud technology with a simple user interface. Krim first developed Joli OS, a free operating system, which enabled users to optimise low-cost devices or recycle older computers. In 2012, Jolicloud launched an HTML5-based cloud platform. Jolicloud is backed by $4.2 million in venture capital funding from Atomico Ventures, formed by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and Mangrove Capital Partners.

Krim was among the first French journalists to be able to write about online issues like copyright infringement, or music piratery, Krim became an expert on digital rights of authors. He was a consultant to Adami the French civil society which allocates rights to musicians. In 2004, he released the study titled “Peer-to-Peer, an New Business Model for Music”, in which he references another study conducted by the French Directorate of Economic Forecasting and Analysis and found the following “no systematic correlation can be made between downloading and the state of the music industry”.

Tariq Krim Net Worth

Tariq Krim is one of the richest Entrepreneur from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tariq Krim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1994, following a conversation with Jean-Francois Bizot in 1994, Krim became a journalist for Novamag and also wrote articles on cyberculture. He continued to work as a journalist for the financial journal La Tribune. The newspaper was initially stationed in Paris before moving to California (he established the La Tribune’s Silicon Valley branch), Krim wrote numerous articles about the Internet business and also a piece on digital music distribution , two years prior to when Napster was established.

In 1999, as the internet was just beginning to take off within France, Krim decided that he had finished writing about the internet’s innovations and that he would “go and do it”. The year was 1999 when he launched the company that would later be known as L8Rmedia which was an agency for publishing and consulting that specialized in digital media. The first branch was located situated in San Francisco; he later extended to Paris. The main publication on the internet, GenerationMP3 (formerly “MPTrois.com”) has 1.5 million visitors every month. and was the first to introduce participative media in France. It’s now the leading publication that focuses on the use of MP3 technology.

In 2008, he was awarded the Information Technology for Business Creation Prize by Telecom ParisTech and its engineering association (AIST). Krim is one of six French personalities to have been selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum.

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