Jean-David Blanc

Jean-David Blanc (born 27 May 1968) is a French entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, writer and jazz musician, founder of AlloCiné and Molotov.

Born into a family of musicians (his father was the violinist Serge Blanc), he took an early interest in computing, a nascent field in France at the time.

His career really took off with the creation of AlloCiné at the age of 22, an innovative cinema information service by telephone later launched on the Internet, which became a notable success and still is today.

[2] At the age of 15, Jean-David Blanc and Jean-Marc Royer created the bulletin board system Futura, an imaginary city with discussion forums and virtual meeting places like a town hall, a post office or a police station.

[6] In 1995, AlloCiné launched advance ticket booking which didn't exist in France at the time, then multiplied the distribution channels: interactive kiosks, Minitel, PalmPilot, then Internet in 1997.

[6] The ambition of the company headed by Jean-Marie Messier was then to develop a worldwide service and make AlloCiné its cornerstone, but Jean-David Blanc finally decided to leave the group shortly after.

[11] The company was acquired in November 2021 for €164.3 million by fuboTV, an American subscription-based video on demand service, which aimed to make it its European hub.

[3] He worked with his father the violinist Serge Blanc and studied harmony with the pedagogue Robert Kaddouch, as well as piano jazz at the American School of Modern Music in Paris.

[3] In 2005, he produced the movie Cavalcade, starring Marion Cotillard and Bérénice Bejo, adapted from the autobiographical book by Bruno de Stabenrath.