blog.

SaaS is eating the world. Or now maybe AI is. But anyway, for my blog I didn’t choose any SaaS.

I needed a desk, I wanted to design and build it myself. I thought about using Sketch Up but remember the learning curve was a bit steep, also thought about Spline 3D but instead, I ended up using Figma. A bad choice, but the quickest way to get it done.

Barely a week into my arrival at Getaround, I was presenting a feature I hadn’t designed, in English, to a hundred unfamiliar faces: engineers, ops, sales… and the entire C-level. Live-streamed across France, the US, and Europe.

“I hope you don’t quit after seeing that.” On my very first day at Decathlon—a global retail leader and dream workplace for French product managers, the fog of war slowly lifted before my eyes. Multiple fronts appeared: price wars against Shein, H&M and consorts, intense competition with premium brands like Nike and Patagonia, E-commerce battles with Amazon and pure players, and the unavoidable tensions that come with fast-paced transformation.

Here I am, writing my first blog post, about... well, creating this blog :) Where to begin? I've been a Product manager for nearly a decade, but also a creative, a builder, an aspiring designer and developer, juggling with a rich array of un/related passions and interests from woodworking to Al.