PODLEADERS
Podcast: Pierre Chappaz, Wikio
01-06-2006
by Tom Raftery
Tom's guest on the show this week is Pierre Chappaz. Pierre founded Kelkoo, a price comparison engine that was bought by Yahoo in 2004 for EUR475 million. He is also the former head of Yahoo Europe, the former head of marketing for IBM Europe and currently the founder of new start-up Wikio.
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With such a strong background Wikio has to be interesting, so Tom invited Pierre onto Podleaders to discuss the start-up, as well as some of his other interests.
Here are the questions Tom asked Pierre along with their times during the interview:
Welcome Pierre -- can you give us some background on yourself first. Who is Pierre Chappaz? - 0:41
You founded Kelkoo back in 1999. Can you talk a bit about how that came about? - 1:45
What is Kelkoo's business model, does it make a commission on sales generated or is it by traffic? How does it work? - 4:08
You sold Kelkoo to Yahoo last year. Can you talk a little about that process? - 5:56
Do you still have an involvement with Kelkoo? - 8:02
You are involved in another start-up now called Wikio. Can you tell us what Wikio is? - 8:15
So Wikio is like a cross between Digg and Technorati with news sites thrown in as well? - 10:36
The interface is in French right now. Are the sites that you're indexing also in French only or are you also indexing sites in English, Spanish, German, etc? - 11:44
You mentioned that you have interests in other businesses as well. NetVibes is one of them, is that right? - 12:46
What are the business models of Wikio and Netvibes? How do you intend to monetise them? - 14:45
And finally, you are a serial entrepreneur, what's next for you? - 16:25
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