Tariq Krim

Tariq Krim (born October 25, 1972, in Paris) is a French digital entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and currently the founder and CEO of Jolicloud, a personal cloud content computing platform and Joli OS a free operating system based on the jolicloud platform. In 2008, he was the first French national named by the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35, and was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture and Communication in 2011

Tariq Krim spent his childhood in the historic area of Paris, Le Marais, where his parents were economics and physical education teachers. Passionate about computers from an early age (he was given his first computer at 10, and created his first Minitel server at 12 years old), Krim went on to study physics at the University of Paris VII and obtained his post-graduate degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST).

In 1994, after meeting with Jean-Francois Bizot, Tariq Krim became a writer for Novamag, contributing articles regularly about cyberculture. He chose to continue his career in journalism for the financial daily newspaper, La Tribune. First based in Paris, then in California (he opened the newspapers’ Silicon Valley branch), Krim published numerous articles on the Internet industry, including a piece on digital music distribution - two years before Napster was founded.

In 1999, when the Internet was still in its infancy in France, Tariq Krim decided that he was done with writing about Internet Innovation and would just “go and do it”. That same year he founded what was to become L8Rmedia, a consulting & publishing company specializing in digital media (first branch in San Francisco, then in Paris). Its main online publication GenerationMP3 (first named MPTrois.com), attracts 1.5 millions readers per month. and pioneered the use of participatory journalism in France It is now a leading publication on mp3 technology.

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