Hoche Hour | Victoire de Villepin on the Human Reality of Hypergrowth
A conversation with Victoire Galouzeau de Villepin — Head of Strategic Development, Euronext Corporate Solutions & former Chief of Staff and CCO, Contentsquare
Hypergrowth is easy to celebrate from the outside: the fundraising headlines, the valuation milestones, the headcount charts climbing sharply upward. But what does it actually feel like to be on the inside of a company scaling from a few hundred people to over two thousand — and what does it cost?
For this edition of Hoche Hour, we sit down with Victoire de Villepin, one of the people who lived that experience most closely at Contentsquare. Over six years alongside founder and CEO Jonathan Cherki — first as Chief of Staff, then as Chief Communications Officer — Victoire had a rare vantage point into one of Europe's most remarkable tech scale-up stories: a Paris-born company that raised over $1.4 billion, reached a $5.6 billion valuation, and grew through multiple acquisitions and international expansions, all within a decade.
Today, she brings those hard-won lessons into a very different kind of organisation as Head of Strategic Development at Euronext Corporate Solutions — and reflects on what each context teaches the other.
It's an honest dialogue about what actually changes as a company scales, what leaders tend to get wrong, and how to protect culture, judgment, and people when the pace of transformation outstrips the ability to provide certainty.
Moderated by Eurydice Lafferayrie, Executive VP of Jus Mundi.
Topics we'll explore
The Chief of Staff vantage point: what this role sees that no single function or office can
What breaks first: identifying the early signals of organisational stress before they become crises
The human cost of constant transformation: protecting people's energy and judgment at scale
Culture, transparency and leadership: how to hold onto a start-up's urgency as the organisation grows
The next chapter: what larger organisations understand about scale that start-ups often miss, and vice versa
🗓️ Event Details
Date: 10 September 2026
Time: 18:00-19:30
Location: Jus Mundi Paris Office, 9 Avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris
Agenda
18:00-19:00 Live moderated conversation followed by Q&A
19:00-19:30 Networking
Kind reminder: Please arrive by 18:00 to respect our speaker's schedule.
This event is part of Hoche Hour, Jus Mundi's speaker series featuring exceptional thinkers at the intersection of law, technology, and global affairs. Space is limited.
Audience: Legal professionals, tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in AI, justice, and European innovation