Renan de Villiers
Co-founder & CEO, OSS Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Renan Devillières co-founded OSS Ventures in 2019 to launch and back B2B SaaS and Industry 4.0 software startups for manufacturing operations. He previously worked as an OECD economist, a McKinsey consultant, and an operations director at Richemont, and co-founded the startup Chance.
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Everything Renan de Villiers said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Reshoring manufacturing will require less diverse, software-customized product lines
“And so what we are going probably to see also is that reshoring is not reshoring the same Factories, but it's also not reassuring the same products. And so you can reassure when you rethink the product line to make it less diverse, but more catered to each aud…”
Semiconductor reshoring to the US is driven purely by modern warfare
“The only reason why there are so many chips factory getting back to the US is because war is chips and chips is war. Like, if you put chips on a drone, you basically have something that is better than airplanes. And so, We will be forced to change our producti…”
The ultra-cheap disposable goods consumption model is likely dead
“That model is probably dead. And so probably the level of consumption would be vastly different. Maybe buying less things, but higher quality and having less diversity.”
US exceptionalism stems from tech optimism, risk appetite, and distrusting government
“I really think that the US exceptionalism exists, and I think it is a mix of Faith in technology, the future, and the ability of people to do that. A healthy distrust of government when it's getting too big. And willingness to take risks and be entrepreneurial…”
Few French software engineers have experience managing products at massive scale
“France is particular because we have really good engineering talent, but they don't have exposure to at scale development. Like, there are very few French engineers that have managed a product with like half a million users.”
Hire newcomers for go-to-market, but experienced veterans for technical decisions
“And then on certain things which are high level decision making, I always trust the guy having done it like two or three times. On certain topics like go to market, top of funnel, or product thinking, I like to take newcomers and people with fresh ideas, but w…”
Renan de Villiers: Future US factories will differ vastly from Asian counterparts
“What I think is that the factories that are going to be created in the U.S. Are going to be vastly different from the factories we are seeing in China or Indonesia or India or whatever, because the set of constraints is vastly different.”
Tesla pushes factory software code to all global Gigafactories simultaneously
“For example, in, in a Tesla factory, when you push code to a machine, you don't push code to one machine. You push code to all the machines from the California Gigafactory, but also the Shanghai Gigafactory, but also the German Gigafactory, but also the Texan …”
The largest startup investor in France is the public bank
“Like the biggest investor in France is the French public bank, which is bonkers, if you ask me.”
Founders should seek advisors who cleared their next milestone three times
“Rule of thumb is, I always trust people who have done it three times and at the step after my step. So if you are looking for advice for the one million mark, look for someone who has done it three times at the ten million mark.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Renan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, OSS Ventures | 1 | 11 | 100% 1/1 | full record on We Live to Build → |