Hippeau graduated from the Lycee Francais de Londres and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris.
He was also SB Capital's board representative for its direct investments in companies, such as Yahoo!, Geocities and CNET.
[citation needed] Hippeau was also responsible for founding ZDTV, a cable channel dedicated to technology and the Internet.
[4] Hippeau was the CEO of HuffPost which he joined in June 2009,[5] after investing through SoftBank Capital and taking a board seat in 2006.
[2] Hippeau serves on the boards of several public and private companies including Resorts Worldwide, BuddyMedia, and BuzzFeed.