A place bursting with fresh ideas
Interview with Nazim Chibane, CEO and co-founder of Klara, software editor specializing in talent management and Ricardo Esteban, General Manager of Petit Bain.
When I give someone my address, the effect is immediate!
Station F enjoys an undeniable image and reputation. It’s a place that bubbles with creativity, where innovative, fast-growing companies share the same challenges and problems. This creates a real emulation that encourages exchange, sharing, and synergies. Our address undoubtedly contributes to our appeal, in terms of both attracting new talents and convincing prospects. It’s a place that’s constantly on the move in terms of development and has now become a powerful economic hub. In a few months, we’ll be leaving Station F, because each company can only be housed there for a limited period of time, i.e. until it’s got off the ground. Will we be staying in the neighborhood? I’m thinking about it…
CEO and co-founder of Klara, software editor specializing in talent management
The Bibliothèque nationale de France not yet inaugurated, the Avenue de France not covered, the Sudac factory still walled up…
It’s an understatement to say that the neighborhood was very different when I first arrived in 1995. We were there at a rather crazy time, a time of immense freedom alongside wasteland that was like a call to adventure! We opened Petit Bain in 2011. We designed this boat as a cultural, social and economic space to the extent that we’re simultaneously a bar, restaurant, concert hall and a place for social insertion. Three years ago, we launched L’Odyssée, a solidarity-based project to develop a new way of using the river. We had two objectives in mind: to build 24 sailboats to take part in the Paris 2024 parade and to make the Seine an immense body of water accessible to swimmers.
General Manager of Petit Bain
