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Nicolas Julia

CEO & Co-Founder, Sorare

Search every verified Nicolas Julia interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Nicolas Julia, CEO and co-founder of Sorare, discussed the company's trajectory since its record fundraising in 2021 during a recent podcast appearance. He reflected on the subsequent market downturn, which led to difficult decisions such as closing the New York office and revising ambitions. Julia stated that while raising substantial capital was necessary to establish a dominant position in a new market and counter competitors, he would have communicated differently about the funding amount and valuation if given the chance. He expressed a desire for Sorare to be recognized for its user reach, revenue, and impact rather than past financial metrics. In the same interview, Julia also discussed broader entrepreneurial topics, recommending a company that sells customizable kitchen furniture and is expanding from online sales to physical showrooms. The provided transcript also includes a quote attributed to Julia about NVIDIA's Vera CPU and a new $200 billion total addressable market, though this statement appears unrelated to his role at Sorare and may be from a different context.

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“The way to think about it is that up until now our data center business has been almost entirely GPUs. Vera is our CPU, and you know what's really exciting is that Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed, and that's huge for the company because for the first time we have a second engine of that sca”

“For the leaderboard as well, we believe like for Sorare 27 it's the right time to address it. So we would do it in a way where we make sure that it's not breaking the game so that it would look like a sub that auto subs in. So you would set a pre-deadline and that auto subs in if one of your the player didn't play, and keeping the like the lineup valid like you shouldn't end up with a good lineup.”

“The limited quantity is the bulk of our business today. So there's absolutely no point on not going to invest on them, and actually like we are investing most of our resources like to make Sorare 27 launch like a massive success.”

“From day one I wanted to work with regulators to find a balance between protecting users' funds and preserving flexibility for innovation.”

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