Too independent, not inclined to hierarchy, risk-takers... Who are serial entrepreneurs really?
One, two, three companies... To rediscover the adrenaline of the beginnings, to exploit their ideas, to avoid boredom, they never stop creating new activities.
"Once you've tried it once, you can't imagine doing anything else." Thibaud Elzière, co-founder of the startup studio Hexa, is part of the "serial entrepreneurs" clan, those who create companies almost one after the other. He launched one of the world's largest image banks, Fotolia, which was sold to the American giant Adobe in 2014 for $800 million. Since then, he and Quentin Nickmans have created eFounders, which is now Hexa. With this startup studio, he has found another way to make the ideas that are running through his head flourish: he offers entrepreneurs help in exploiting the avenues he has identified, in exchange for a share of the capital in their companies.
Like him, repeat entrepreneurs are often those who thrive on the excitement of the early days, when anything is possible, but who grow weary when it comes to developing, structuring, and establishing processes. "When a business has grown significantly, it becomes more routine. This…
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