Fireside chat with Simon (EWOR) & Léopold (AMI Labs)
Fireside chat - Eiffel Founders × EWOR × 42AI
Two operators who've been through the full startup journey, one stage, one evening at École 42.
Simon went from integration engineer to CEO at Adjust, and Léopold built a healthcare marketplace before joining one of the most funded AI startups in Europe. They'll share what it actually takes to build, scale and operate, with plenty of time for your questions.
🇫🇷 Conference and Q&A in French.
🎤 Speakers
Simon Dussart, COO @ EWOR Joined Adjust in 2014 as an integration engineer and took it all the way to CEO, growing revenue to €150M+ and profits to €50M. Engineer by training, while always focusing on product, clients and operations. After years of keynotes around the world on counting ad clicks, he now spends his time with EWOR fellows and applicants on how to build a business without losing your mind.
Léopold Treppoz, Chief of Staff to the CEO @ AMI AMI is the AI startup that raised $1.03B in its seed round. Before that, Léopold co-founded Mediflash, a healthcare staffing marketplace backed by firstminute capital. In five years, it connected 50,000+ caregivers with 800+ facilities, for €33M in GMV. X-HEC Entrepreneurs alumnus.
More speakers to be announced.
📋 Agenda 7:00pm — Doors open 7:30pm — Fireside chat + Q&A 9:00pm — Drinks & networking, offered by EWOR
👥 Who should come Founders, builders, students & anyone thinking about starting a company.
🚀 Bonus: EWOR office hours
EWOR is hosting 1:1 office hours at the Eiffel Founders Hacker House on the morning of the event (9am–12pm).
10–12 founders will be selected. Apply here: https://form.ewor.com/t/1GVBYPkrLCus
📍 École 42, 96 Bd Bessières, 75017 Paris (Porte de Clichy — lines 13, 14 & RER C) 🗓️ Thursday, October 15
About the hosts
EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech. It backs the top 0.1% of founders with up to €500K in funding and weekly 1:1 mentorship from unicorn founders (Adjust, ProGlove, SumUp) who work full-time at EWOR. The program is virtual-first and modular, with no standardised playbook. Its fellows have gone from a €13M pre-seed as first-time founders to a $3B valuation within 2 years.
42AI is École 42's AI hub, dedicated to building the next generation of top-tier AI talent through research labs, high-impact events and industry partnerships (Anthropic, OpenAI, CNRS, Hugging Face, Google, Nvidia, H Company…).
Eiffel Founders is a Hacker House in Paris co-founded by 10 X-HEC Entrepreneurs students, bringing together founders, VCs & operators.