Angel investor who backed 50+ startups on why Mistral's hard without playing the state card
JiliJeanlouis · x · 2026-09-24
Responding to Mistral criticism, an entrepreneur and angel investor (50+ companies) describes the structural difficulty of building a tech company in France without leveraging state support: financing and domestic-only growth are both hard. His own company survived by helping US firms enter Europe and excelling at transcription of French-accented English. He isn't defending Mistral but argues founders Guillaume Lample and Arthur Mensch are genuinely talented within a tough ecosystem.
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