The Origins

At fourteen, I started Dreamovies, one of France's early streaming sites. Designed, developed and operated end to end, it passed one million visits in under a year and turned that audience into meaningful AdSense revenue. When the law changed, I chose to close it myself. The project grew out of years spent building from age ten: a village website, then a Stargate fan encyclopedia. But Dreamovies was the first proof that something built alone could attract a vast audience and become a real business.

Even earlier, at about eleven, I entered Mangeur de Cigogne, the first francophone SEO positioning contest. Nearly 180 amateur and professional webmasters competed to rank the same invented query on Google. It became a practical introduction to search mechanics, semantics and the power of links, years before SEO became an established industry.