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Éric Carreel: “The most important thing is the passion of a team”

2020-06-02T22:57:03.756Z


INTERVIEW - The president of Withings practices management that empowers its employees.Watches for monitoring physical activity, blood pressure monitors, smart scales. The Covid-19 epidemic has shown the need to develop telemedicine and connected objects such as those produced by Withings. Its co-founder, Éric Carreel, looks back on the new life of the company which he sold and then bought from Nokia. LE FIGARO. - You co-founded Withings in 2008. Why were you interested in connecte...


Watches for monitoring physical activity, blood pressure monitors, smart scales. The Covid-19 epidemic has shown the need to develop telemedicine and connected objects such as those produced by Withings. Its co-founder, Éric Carreel, looks back on the new life of the company which he sold and then bought from Nokia.

LE FIGARO. - You co-founded Withings in 2008. Why were you interested in connected scales and blood pressure monitors?

Éric CARREEL. - This project was part of the continuation of Inventel, my previous company created with Jacques Lewiner, honorary scientific director of the ESPCI ParisTech school. The company had developed the France Telecom Livebox - one of the very first connected objects, configurable remotely! In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone and a new world took shape. It was now possible to link, via a simple application, a smartphone with a connected device. With Frédéric Potter and Cédric Hutchings, the other two founders

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Source: lefigaro

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