blog.

In Part II, have a glimpse of what we actually built, and the stack that powered it all.

A riddle.

How we incubated a risky SaaS to handle global natural disasters, while hunting for product-market fit.

You’d think with billions poured into AI, we’d finally have smooth, magical transcription. Not quite. Here's a quick roundup of what I tried.

SaaS is eating the world. Or now maybe AI is. But anyway, for my blog I didn’t choose any SaaS.

I needed a desk, I wanted to design and build it myself. I thought about using Sketch Up but remember the learning curve was a bit steep, also thought about Spline 3D but instead, I ended up using Figma. A bad choice, but the quickest way to get it done.

One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year (and mine too, you're welcome). Reading it felt like a catharsis after my time at AXA Climate, working on natural disasters and prevention. The book tackled many of the subjects we faced daily: heat waves, wildfires, adaptation — and, most importantly, raising awareness among people and companies about their exposure.

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Barely a week into my arrival at Getaround, I was presenting a feature I hadn’t designed, in English, to a hundred unfamiliar faces: engineers, ops, sales… and the entire C-level. Live-streamed across France, the US, and Europe.

“I hope you don’t quit after seeing that.” On my very first day at Decathlon—a global retail leader and dream workplace for French product managers, the fog of war slowly lifted before my eyes. Multiple fronts appeared: price wars against Shein, H&M and consorts, intense competition with premium brands like Nike and Patagonia, E-commerce battles with Amazon and pure players, and the unavoidable tensions that come with fast-paced transformation.

Here I am, writing my first blog post, about... well, creating this blog :) Where to begin? I've been a Product manager for nearly a decade, but also a creative, a builder, an aspiring designer and developer, juggling with a rich array of un/related passions and interests from woodworking to Al.