The hearing of the head of Mistral AI goes off the rails live!

I would say that regarding labor law, we could give employees more freedom to leave their companies. I think that would largely accelerate things. I'll say it again, it would be very important and very useful. We pay our employees with roughly American salaries, and we still apply French labor law. So one thing we could do, but don't allow ourselves to do, is recruit extremely fast like Americans know how to do, while allowing ourselves to lose 30% of people after two months. In fact, we could do it, but it's not really in the culture. I think French labor law allows it today. So in my opinion, there aren't many changes to make from that point of view. No, really, the issue is to de-protect large companies that want to keep their employees.

Thank you, Fabien. Regarding employee rights, I'll say it again: we are in favor, generally speaking, startups are in favor of more fluidity in the labor market. That means when we want to recruit someone from a competitor, we'd like to be able to do it in two weeks. We'd like to do it in 10 days, as is done in the United States. But the counterpart is that our own employees can leave, and another counterpart is that it should be less difficult to separate from an employee with whom the fit isn't good. So everyone is well paid. The ideal world for a startup is that everyone is well paid, that you need to be performant to stay in the startup, and that if a startup is going to poach employees from larger competitors, it can do so more easily. So less employer protection and perhaps a little less employee protection on certain subjects when salaries are there, when salaries are high, so we can quickly evaluate if the fit is good and if we made the right bet.

No, but wait, don't start, I won't answer on that otherwise we'll go off track.