Interview

June 11, 2020

Could Meero’s founder be the next Emmanuel Macron?

Meero’s flamboyant founder Thomas Rebaud has been thinking a lot about employees, doing deals — and politics.


Meero founder and chief executive Thomas Rebaud.

First entrepreneurship, then a career in politics? “Why not,” says Thomas Rebaud.

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