Philippe Bouissou
With 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Philippe has held CEO and executive positions in several companies. As a Venture Capitalist, he successfully invested $43M and generated double-digit IRR. He led dozens of management-consulting projects and served on the board of 14 companies.
Prior to Blue Dots, Philippe co-founded and was Executive Chairman of evenVoice, a mobile real-time consumer empowerment company and Executive Board Member of Pave, a peer-to-peer funding platform for Millenniums.
For over half a decade, Philippe co-managed the Milestone Group, a management consulting firm serving over 220 Clients. Before Milestone, Philippe was General Partner for seven years with two venture capital firms: Allegis Capital ($500M under management) and Ventech ($200M under management). Prior to being a Venture Capitalist, Philippe created and was Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce group at Apple where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350M. Before joining Apple, Philippe was Senior VP at Matra Hachette Multimedia, where he led US business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company. He previously founded and was the CEO of G2i, Inc. a Unix software company that was later acquired by Matra.
Philippe graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, a Master degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in chaos theory.
Posts by Philippe Bouissou
The impedance mismatch of delight
I recently came across an interview of Byron Deeter, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners…
Why external alignment is mission critical…
Before being in the management consulting business, I was a Partner at Allegis Capital …
Growth is the master. Success is its slave.
At Blue Dots, we are religious about top-line revenue growth and how to optimize it…
What happened to Nasty Gal?
Nasty Gal was an online fashion store that was selling its own collection and other brand items of edgy, stylish clothing, accessories and shoes…
The death of misalignment
In our First Monday newsletter last November, I wrote about the life and death of alignment…
Every company is in the business of manufacturing delight
On Thursday, March 31st, in Los Angeles at SpaceX, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla introduced the Model 3 to the world…
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