Radio interview of **54 minutes** with **Philippe Corrot**, co-founder and co-CEO of **Mirakl**, on *Les Pirates de l'IA* hosted by **Éric Hazan** (RCJ), the season-opening episode broadcast on **September 20, 2026** (volume 10), in three parts separated by musical breaks. **(A)** The career path, dated: **Keyrus** in 1997 (web agency, sold to **Progiware** in 2000), **Mayrev** in fashion accessories, then **Splitgames** — a video-game marketplace — bought by **Fnac** in 2008, whose two partners ran the marketplace for three years before founding **Mirakl** with **Adrien Nussenbaum**. **(B)** The vendor's exposure to what he calls the *"SaaSpocalypse,"* broken down into two mechanisms: **per-seat** pricing, from which Mirakl is exempt since it takes a percentage **on transactions** — *"whether it's an AI buying or a human customer, it makes no difference to us"* — and the rewriting of a piece of software by a model, which he considers unlikely in the short term because *"Mirakl isn't just lines of code"* but an infrastructure connecting nearly **100,000 sellers**. **(C)** The internal transformation, with a method starting from **deliverables** and working back up the chain, the merger of the documentation, support, and training teams, and the **OneHelp** agent: at constant headcount, customer satisfaction **×2** and support users **×10**. **(D)** The forward-looking part, where he answers *"yes"* to the question of a *job apocalypse*, treats **universal basic income** as a question worth asking, and blames French labor law and the lack of a French vision. Caveat set by the guest himself: *"what I'm telling you is true for the next six months."* Continues on the vendor side with [[bain-ai-rule-of-40-headwinds-tailwinds-saas-2026-04]].
#digital marketplace#marketplace#platform model
Philippe Corrot · cofondateur et co-CEO de Mirakl · interrogé par Éric Hazan dans *Les Pirates de l'IA* (RCJ).
Fact-checking synthesis on **Delos Intelligence** (delos.so), a French B2B generative AI startup, comparing a prior tech-watch note against **primary sources** (Alexandre Dewez's "Overlooked" post / 20VC, April 15, 2025, the delos.so website, official registries) and specialized press (Le Monde Informatique, L'Usine Nouvelle, FrenchWeb, Le JDD). **Overall verdict: reliable factual backbone.** The **€2.5M seed round** (≈$2.74–2.83M) led by **20VC** (Harry Stebbings) in **April 2025**, with Inovia Capital, Kima Ventures (Xavier Niel) and Plug and Play, is confirmed; so are the founders (brothers **Pierre** and **Thibaut de la Grand'rive**) and the clients **TotalEnergies, Shiseido, Groupe Casino**. **Strong methodological point**: the list of business angels — often suspected of hallucinatory "padding" — is **CONFIRMED word for word** by the lead investor's press release (Pigment, Dataiku, Hexa plus Ramp and Kerala to add): this is therefore NOT a hallucination. **To correct**: the "50 people" headcount is **not sourceable** (~20 in April 2025, about forty by late 2025); the actual pricing grid is richer (a **Student tier at €10** plus Enterprise on request, in addition to €25/45/80); user figures (10,000 → 50,000 → "100,000+") and ARR are **self-reported and unaudited**. **To flag as speculative**: **no Series A has closed** (only announced as an intention targeting March 2026); **no overall ARR published** (the only mention is a self-promotional "$1M ARR in a few days" for the new **Workers** product, referring to that product alone). "100% Scaleway" sovereignty was **still being finalized** at the end of 2025 (compute still partly running on Azure France). The note's interest is as much methodological — **how to distinguish, within an AI-generated synthesis, what is confirmed, partially accurate, speculative, and self-reported** — as it is documentary.
#Delos Intelligence#delos.so#fact-checking
Synthèse de veille (fact-checking) — sources primaires : blog 20VC (Alexandre Dewez) · delos.so · registres officiels ; presse : Le Monde Informatique · L'Usine Nouvelle · FrenchWeb · Le JDD