Forbes, Time and Sports Illustrated France Founder Dominique Busso on Building a Media Empire, Having Angelina Jolie as a Cover Star and What’s Next at the Cannes Film Festival
Tech Powered LuxuryShow Notes
This week, Ashley sits down with Dominique Busso, the entrepreneur behind three of the most exciting media moves happening in France right now. He launched Time magazine in France for the first time in the publication's 100 year history. He built Oniriq from scratch, a luxury and lifestyle magazine that weighs 750 grams and feels like it. And he just signed the deal to bring Sports Illustrated to France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Monaco. All of this from a core team of 15 people in central Paris.
TL;DR: This Week’s Podcast Episode He launched the first media website in France in October 1995. Dominique has never once been behind the curve.
A French edition of Time Magazine had never existed. Dominique changed that.
Angelina Jolie reached out to be on the cover of Time France’s first edition.
Oniriq was built because the world needed a luxury magazine that was actually made in France, by French people, about the country where luxury was born.
Sports Illustrated France was discussed over lunch in Saint-Tropez. The website launched three weeks later.
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