The Origins

From age ten, in a village of fewer than nine hundred souls, he built the things others only browsed — the town's website, an encyclopedia for a world that wasn't his. At fifteen he ran one of France's first great streaming sites: a million visits in under a year, profitable on AdSense, until the law arrived and he closed it himself. The pattern was already set — build beneath the surface — and so was the first brush with a gate.

• ▸Built the town website and a Stargate fan encyclopedia from age ~10.
• ▸Ran Dreamovies, a Netflix-shaped streaming site, at 15 — 1M+ hits in under a year, AdSense-profitable.
• ▸Closed it himself when the law changed.