This morning I published a piece on Flint's first year. Lessons learned, and the rest. But what I really wanted, above all, was to end with the best. Or rather, end with the best people: the Flinters, as we call them.
Because Flint only exists through them and for them.
It all started with Lynda earlier this year. Lynda is an exceptional senior project manager. On top of her missions, she's a seasoned entrepreneur (see her restaurant Bubble Z in Montpellier). Lynda is an alien: her days are 29 hours long.
So our first consultant is, in fact, a woman consultant, an expert in digital transformation, who is giving great satisfaction to our banking client on its software changes.
There is also Jean-Baptiste (JayBay to his close friends), an excellent frontend engineer. One of our clients told me one day:
He managed in six months what we hadn't managed to do in three years.
I'd put JB on any frontend mission with absolute confidence. On top of that he's a great consultant, always available (when he isn't unboxing his sneakers - he's a fashion victim), always smiling. He's fully delivering for our first American client (in New York), working remote from Montpellier on a particularly innovative project.
There's also Fred and JP, two very experienced and brilliant consultants who are trying to bring more intelligence to oil and natural-gas prospecting and extraction. Both are very involved in community work and in interesting personal projects (especially JP - by the way, he's looking for a biz dev if you happen to know one, to commercialise a tech product/service he designed entirely on his own 😱).
Gabriel, for his part, is an unusual profile. I almost hired him over the phone alone, so strongly did I feel an exceptional motivation and…
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