Xavier Niel, billionaire and deputy chairman of Iliad SA, reacts during the inauguration of the LVMH start-up accelerator at Station F technology campus in Paris, France, on Monday, April 9, 2018. The accelerator aims to encourage entrepreneurs who are developing new technologies and services for the luxury industry. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg
Xavier Niel is in demand these days. The founder of French telecommunication group Iliad SA joined technology icons including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of other top executives at a meeting with President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace last week.
A day earlier, Niel was thronged by admirers attending a conference at his Station F tech-startup incubator on Paris’s Left Bank.
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