Everything Hugo Garcia-Cotte said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Garcia-Cotte: Western brands severely distrust Chinese startups for anti-counterfeiting solutions
“Like, obviously, a Chinese team would have a hard time convincing Western brands that they are trustworthy for anti-counterfeiting. It's sad to say, but it's the reality.”
Garcia-Cotte: 99% of business books are poisonous trash by non-practitioners
“99% of business books are trash. Trash, trash, trash. Actually, it's worse if you read them than if you don't read them, because if you read them, you get poisonous thoughts, and not only you wasted your time reading it, that's okay, it's just a few hours, but…”
Garcia-Cotte: Anti-counterfeiting competitors lack tech DNA and hire second-rate CTOs
“Cause a lot of competitors, they don't even come from a tech background. They come from a printing background. They come from a hologram background. They have no idea about computer science. So then they hire a second-rate CTO, and they don't coach him well, a…”
Garcia-Cotte: CEOs cannot delegate hiring until reaching 1,000 employees
“Hiring is not something you can delegate. It's your job as the CEO until you're a thousand employees.”
Garcia-Cotte: French public universities are poor compared to Grandes Écoles
“French universities are not good. The good students, they go to elite schools, but these are not schools you pay for. Like, to go there, you have very tough competitions, and most of them are free.”
Garcia-Cotte: Cypheme Raised the Largest French Angel Round at That Time
“Then everybody turned to yes, and then we made the biggest angel round in France at that time.”
Garcia-Cotte: 45% of Protected Anti-Cancer Medicine in China Was Counterfeit
“So then they started using our product, and we realized that not only they had some fakes, but actually they had 45% fakes in the market.”
Garcia-Cotte: Cypheme's intelligence led Chinese police to jail 18 counterfeiters
“18 criminals were sent to jail thanks to the intel we provided them, and we had no idea.”
Garcia-Cotte: Do Not Start a Company Without 24 Months of Runway
“If you cannot afford to be without resource or with some resource on the side for 24 months, if you're gonna give up before 24 months, don't even start. Because that's what it will take for you to start having a company.”
Garcia-Cotte: Uncle's 12-color camera scanned Mona Lisa and revealed Da Vinci's underdrawing
“One of my uncles invented a camera that can analyze paintings in 12 colors instead of three. So a normal camera just take three colors, RGB, and then save that. He invented a camera that can scan in 12 colors, and he struggled for years to sell it, and he didn…”
Garcia-Cotte: 99 Out of Almost 100 Investors Rejected Cypheme's First Round
“Actually, within those six months, I've maybe met a little less than a hundred investors, and it was insanely hard because it was three, four, five, six, sometimes seven meetings a day pitching our company, and out of these 100 people, 99 of them said no.”
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