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

<p>This week, Ashley sits down with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbusso/">Dominique Busso</a>, the entrepreneur behind three of the most exciting media moves happening in France right now. He launched <a href="https://www.timefrance.fr/">Time magazine</a> in France for the first time in the publication&#39;s 100 year history. He built <a href="https://www.oniriq.com/">Oniriq</a> from scratch, a luxury and lifestyle magazine that weighs 750 grams and feels like it. And he just signed the deal to bring <a href="http://www.sportsillustrated.fr/">Sports Illustrated</a> to France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Monaco. All of this from a core team of 15 people in central Paris.</p><p><br></p><p>TL;DR: This Week’s Podcast Episode</p><ul><li><p><em><strong>He launched the first media website in France in October 1995. </strong></em>Dominique has never once been behind the curve.</p></li><li><p><em><strong>A French edition of Time Magazine had never existed.</strong></em> Dominique changed that.</p></li><li><p><em><strong>Angelina Jolie reached out to be on the cover of Time France’s first edition.</strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>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.</strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Sports Illustrated France was discussed over lunch in Saint-Tropez.</strong></em> The website launched three weeks later.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow along on <a href="https://ie.linkedin.com/company/tech-powered-luxury">LinkedIn</a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/techpoweredluxury/?hl=en">Instagram</a><strong>,</strong> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@techpoweredluxury22">TikTok</a><strong>,</strong> and join the conversation.</p></li></ul>