“In judo, you fall and you get up. It's not far from the business."
Stéphane Nomis was a member of the French team for nine years, from 1990 to 1999. He is one of the very few former top athletes to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit at these heights: Ippon Technologies, which has achieved more than 70 million euros in turnover in 2021, employs 700 people worldwide and expects 230 recruitments this year.
“From 16 to 28 years old
, says the leader,
judo was my whole life but I also had a taste for computers.
At the end of my career, the Federation funded me for a three-month training course in information systems.
I was employed for a year before understanding that I could do for myself what I was doing for others.
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At the time, in the early 2000s, it was still the time of the “old world”:
“I had to see twenty-one banks to get a loan of 8000 euros
, he continues.
Judoka and IT entrepreneur…
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