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Kihei, my dog (at the beach in San Francisco). Not yet an entrepreneur.

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STATION F - World's biggest startup campus

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With more than 30 startup programs, 35 public administrations, 150 VC funds, 4 mentorship offices and 600 events per year, STATION F offers all the best resources and knowledge to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. Startups will benefit from the community and meet other great entrepreneurs.

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Take the 460 bus down St Cloud. take metro 10 and exchange for metro 6. There could be other routes (depends on the time we're going).
The address for Station F is:
55 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, 75013 Paris

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Station F is the world's biggest startup campus. Thousands of entrepreneurs are currently moving into the new building here in Paris. But if you're still wondering what it actually looks like, we visited Station F and interviewed the two persons behind it - Roxanne Varza and Xavier Niel.

Station F is a massive building that has been completely renovated and now features thousands of desks, dozens of conference rooms, VC firms, a stage and more. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower laying down, and it's quite impressive in person. Station F has been years in the making. French billionaire Xavier Niel spent hundreds of millions of euros to purchase and transform the building into a sort of central hub for the French tech ecosystem with Roxanne Varza at the helm.

The various open office areas are divided into many different pieces. Some chunks of the building are managed by Station F's partners, such as Facebook, Zendesk, Vente-Privée, HEC, Microsoft, etc. Those big tech companies pick young startups to come and work at Station F and collaborate with them.

Overall, Station F is a huge bet on the future of the French tech ecosystem. If things go well for French startups, people are going to look at Station F as the physical representation of those successes.

Featured Image: Patrick Tourneboeuf/Tendance Floue

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Inside Station F, the startup megacampus that just opened in Paris

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Station F is a business incubator for startups, located in 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is noted as the world's largest startup facility.

Situated in a former rail freight depot previously known as la Halle Freyssinet (thereof the "F" in Station F). The 34,000 m ² facility was formally opened by President Emmanuel Macron in June 2017 and provides office accommodation for up to 1,000 start-up and early stage businesses as well as for corporate partners such as Facebook, Microsoft and Naver.

Station F occupies a building designed by French engineer Eugène Freyssinet. First opened in 1929, the former rail depot has been extensively remodeled by architects Wilmotte and Associates to meet the needs of small start-up companies.

As well as 3,000 desk spaces and private meeting facilities, the incubator also hosts a 370-seat auditorium and dining facilities open to the public. Facebook's own Startup Garage in the building will host up to 15 companies on a six monthly cycle and represents the company's first physical space dedicated to startups.

The campus also houses La Felicità, the largest restaurant in Europe, with 4,500 square meters from the Big Mamma restaurant group. This giant food court comprises five different Italian eateries.

Station F has a number of partnerships for start up programs geared for entrepreneurs. Partners include Facebook, Google Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Zendesk.

As of August 2020, the following partners were hosting startups programs within Station F:

Station F awards different prizes each year to the startups on its campus :

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Station F is a business incubator for startups, located in 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is noted as the world's largest startup facility. Situated in a former rail freight depot previously known as la Halle Freyssinet (thereof the "F" in Station F).

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This is the day they welcomed over 3000 entrepreneurs and 26 startup companies

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STATION F, the world's largest startup campus, is welcoming 3000 entrepreneurs from 1000 different startups from over 50 countries! Located in the heart of Paris and backed by Xavier Niel, STATION F was inaugurated in June 2017 by French President Emmanuel Macron.

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Super cool video on the renovation! Really interesting to watch 

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Station F : les coulisses d'une rénovation

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Rabot Dutilleul Construction constitue l'un des acteurs majeurs des travaux de rénovation de la Halle Freyssinet.

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Details on some of the first companies in Station F

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On December 5th at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016, Station F Director Roxanne Varza has revealed the names of the first members of the world's largest startup campus. These include VCs, Internet giant Facebook and HEC Paris Incubator, all of whom are top international players in this unique ecosystem of entrepreneurs. Based in Paris and known as la Halle Freyssinet, this campus will gather over 1000 startups in a 34 000m2 space.

The 34,000m2 campus is located in a historical monument, a former train station built in 1929 by famous French engineer Eugène Freyssinet. Renovated by award-winning French architects Wilmotte & Associés, this dedicated space is designed for collaboration and innovation.

HEC Paris @facebook @venteprivee_fr joins world's biggest #startup campus @joinstationf cc @HECParisEnt https://t.co/s5IBx9U8L9 @TechCrunch
- HEC Paris (@HECParis) 6 décembre 2016

Some of the first members of STATION F will include:

- Facebook, whose presence at STATION F will be confirmed in detail in 2017;
- vente-privee, which will launch its first-ever startup program on-site;
- Top VC companies like Daphni, Ventech and Kima Ventures will have offices on-site; and
- US-based TechShop Ateliers Leroy Merlin will operate the on-campus prototyping lab
- HEC Paris' Incubator will make its new home at STATION F

"HEC Paris joins Station F because we believe that, by combining forces within the startup ecosystem, and leveraging the full power of the HEC Paris brand and international community, we will strengthen projects launched at Station F, thus creating value and impact for the world", says Dean Peter Todd.

The HEC Paris Incubator, part of the Entrepreneurship Center, is a multisector start-up support program based on 3 pillars: An "à la carte" program, a participative community and a knowledge factory. We mobilize the whole HEC ecosystem around entrepreneurs to accelerate their development.

HEC Paris Incubator Key figures

Created in 2007
250 startups incubated
360 entrepreneurs
74% still in activity

HECParis w/ @joinstationf in search of #entrepreneurs on world's biggest #startup campus https://t.co/5JJgEOMbkq @business cc @incubateurhec
- HEC Paris (@HECParis) 7 décembre 2016

The STATION F campus features a startup zone with more than 3,000 desks, private offices, meeting rooms, various event spaces including an auditorium for 360 people, an on-site fablab, a post office, a pop-up shop, a café, a 4-kitchen restaurant and a bar open to the public 24-7.

STATION F will open its doors in April 2017

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On December 5th at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016, Station F Director Roxanne Varza has revealed the names of the first members of the world's largest startup campus. These include VCs, Internet giant Facebook and HEC Paris Incubator, all of whom are top international players in this unique ecosystem of entrepreneurs.

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Roxanne Varza is a co-organizer of the Failcon Paris, which is a conference that teaches startups how to learn from and prepare for failure

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On Thursday evening, the world's biggest startup campus officially opened. Around 3,000 people are going to work in this huge building. TechCrunch walked around the building with the President of France Emmanuel Macron and other officials.

"We called this building Station F, like Station France, Station Femmes [ed. note: women in French], Station Founders or Station Freyssinet because Freyssinet was a great architect and a great entrepreneur," French billionaire and Iliad founder Xavier Niel told Macron.

While Station F was originally built in the 1920s by Eugène Freyssinet, it was supposed to be destroyed in 2011. In 2013, Niel had a crazy idea. He thought he would acquire the building, renovate it from the ground up and turn it into a ginormous startup campus - 366,000ft2 or 34,000m2.

A few years later, the massive building is still there, but with thousands of desks, giant walls of glass, bright lights and Mediterranean trees. "It looked nothing like this. It was an abandoned train station with dark ceilings," Niel said.

Starting on Monday, 1,100 startups are moving in. Many of them get selected by Station F's partners. There will also be 20 VC firms with a small space there, a post office and a giant restaurant in a few months.

A focus on diversity and foreign talent

After this short introduction, Macron and Niel immediately started talking with some of the entrepreneurs who were there to visit the building with him, starting with Zenly's co-founder. The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, France's digital minister Mounir Mahjoubi, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Brigitte Macron were also here.

Later on, Macron started speaking with an entrepreneur in English. The entrepreneur said that he came to France to start a company through the French Tech Ticket program. Macron mentions the recently launched French Tech Visa, a special visa for entrepreneurs, engineers and investors.

"We call each space like this a village," Varza tells Macron. "There are around 60 desks per village. And they've been specifically designed to foster collaboration."

Another entrepreneur then greeted Macron in English then started talking in perfect French. Macron asked him if he was French or a foreigner. "I arrived in France to study at [Niel's coding school] 42. I was studying biology and I moved here after watching your video," he said.

Niel then joked with Macron, saying that he's heard there are a few former students from 42 who are now working with Macron at the Elysée.

Varza explained the newly launched Fighters Program. Under-represented founders will be able to get a free desk at Station F. "They will sit next to people in the Founders Program, we wanted to mix them together," Varza said.

While Station F is already a $230 million investment (€200 million), Niel is also spending another $57 million (€50 million) on a residential building in Ivry-sur-Seine. 600 people will be able to live there. "It's the same model as 42. We know that parents are not there to help them, we know that housing is an issue for them," Niel said.

Somebody working for Station F then stopped the president and asked him to record a 10-second video. "We are here today in Paris in Station F. So if you want to invent, invest and develop your startup, you'll have to come here," Macron said. After shooting the video he handed back the phone and apologized because he ended up talking for 32 seconds:

The group then headed back to the stage so that Varza, Hidalgo and Macron could give a speech. 2,000 people were waiting to hear the speeches. Macron shook hands, took a few selfies and then went on stage.

Xavier Niel lets others introduce Station F for him

The content of the speeches wasn't as interesting as the way it was structured. Varza first took the stage and talked about Station F's partners (Facebook, Zendesk, Vente-Privée, HEC, Microsoft...), people who helped the project in one way or another (Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Louis Missika, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Station F's team...). She also said that entrepreneurship should no longer be all white, all male - and Station F is going to contribute to that.

But when she thanked Xavier Niel, the audience went crazy and applauded for a few minutes. It felt like a concert with the audience waiting for the encore.

It's clear that Niel has become the role model for a generation of young entrepreneurs. He got rich with a telecom company, started a coding school, started a seed fund with Kima Ventures, invested in some of the most famous Silicon Valley companies (Square, Nest, Snap, Airbnb, Uber...), acquired newspapers and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on buildings for startups.

And yet, Niel didn't speak on stage.

The Mayor of Paris talked about what Station F means for Paris. "We wanted Paris to be something else than a museum city," Hidalgo said.

And finally, Macron took the stage. He started by making a comparison between his own political career and the life of an entrepreneur, saying that people don't necessarily believe in you, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.

"The thing that is bringing us together today is that entrepreneurial spirit," he said. "Many people wanted to tell me what kind of life I should lead, and I decided something else. You don't want someone else to lead your life for you."

Macron then talked once again about inequalities, using the same narrative as the one in his speech during VivaTech. According to him, entrepreneurs need to be as inclusive as possible. It should help society as a whole. If the tech community divides the country, it would be a failure.

Station F's real start

Over the coming days, thousands of people are going to move in here at Station F. While it took years to get there, this is only the very beginning.

It's hard to know for sure if Station F is going to drastically change the face of the tech ecosystem in Paris. But there's one thing for sure, it's a great communication move and it makes France more attractive than ever.

Eventually, Niel wants to create a foundation so that others can invest in Station F. He says that he doesn't want to make any profit from this venture. But it sure is a great move to convince the startup community that he's on their side.

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Station F is the world's biggest startup campus. Thousands of entrepreneurs are currently moving into the new building here in Paris. But if you're still wondering what it actually looks like, we visited Station F and interviewed the two persons behind it - Roxanne Varza and Xavier Niel.

Station F is a massive building that has been completely renovated and now features thousands of desks, dozens of conference rooms, VC firms, a stage and more. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower laying down, and it's quite impressive in person. Station F has been years in the making. French billionaire Xavier Niel spent hundreds of millions of euros to purchase and transform the building into a sort of central hub for the French tech ecosystem with Roxanne Varza at the helm.

The various open office areas are divided into many different pieces. Some chunks of the building are managed by Station F's partners, such as Facebook, Zendesk, Vente-Privée, HEC, Microsoft, etc. Those big tech companies pick young startups to come and work at Station F and collaborate with them.

Overall, Station F is a huge bet on the future of the French tech ecosystem. If things go well for French startups, people are going to look at Station F as the physical representation of those successes.

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START UP - Station F, qui doit être inaugurée ce 29 juin par le président Emmanuel Macron, est présentée comme le plus grand campus de start-up du monde, un lieu voulu à Paris par le fondateur du groupe de télécoms Iliad-Free, Xavier Niel, pour faire rayonner la high tech française.

Les Parisiens connaissent l'endroit sous le nom de Halle Freyssinet. C'est une ancienne gare de marchandises, un bâtiment classé des années 1920 proche de la gare d'Austerlitz. "L'idée c'est de créer un lieu-phare qui aide les autres", explique Xavier Niel.

"Un endroit très visible qui crée une image forte pour Paris", suffisamment grand et actif pour attirer l'attention au niveau mondial. Ouvert jour et nuit et peuplé de jeunes gens enthousiastes, que le HuffPost a pu visiter le 13 juin, juste avant la fin des travaux.
Un millier de start up attendues
Le site, qui doit accueillir ses premiers occupants le 1er juillet, ouvre avec trois mois de retard pour cause de fuite d'eau au sous-sol. Le délai a permis à l'équipe de peaufiner son projet, en passant notamment des accords avec de grands noms de la "tech".

Sur le millier de start-up attendues à Station F, 200 seront hébergées directement, après sélection. Les autres le seront via des partenaires qui animeront des thématiques spécifiques: Thales pour la cybersécurité, Facebook pour la data (les données informatiques), Microsoft pour l'intelligence artificielle, l'Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM) pour la santé, le sud-coréen Naver pour le multimédia...

"Chaque programme est un incubateur en soi", précise la directrice Roxane Varza. Elle aime comparer la structure qu'elle a conçue avec Xavier Niel à un campus à l'américaine. Une annexe est prévue de l'autre côté du périphérique avec 600 chambres pour les start-uppers, en colocations.

"L'ambition à Station F, c'est vraiment de rendre l'entrepreneuriat plus accessible et de mettre tout un écosystème sur place, pour que les start-up ne passent pas leur temps à aller chercher des ressources à droite et à gauche", note Roxane Varza. Et aussi profiter d'une attention spéciale, assister à des conférences, rencontrer des personnalités, faire la fête...
Une nef de béton de 310 mètres
Longue de 310 m, la nef de béton a été divisée par l'architecte Jean-Michel Wilmotte en trois espaces distincts et complémentaires, à commencer par "Create", le coeur où les jeunes pousses pourront vivre leur vie de start-up pour 195 euros par mois et par poste de travail.

La partie "Share" est conçue comme un espace de rencontres avec un auditorium, un "fab lab" (un atelier doté d'imprimantes 3D en self-service), un bureau de poste et une boutique présentant des créations des pensionnaires. "Chill" enfin, sera une partie ouverte au public avec - à la fin de l'année - un espace de restauration fonctionnant 24 heures sur 24.
Nef de 310 mètres d'un seul tenant, la Halle Freyssinet a obtenu d'être classée aux monuments historiques. C'est ce qui a sauvé ce bâtiment des années 20 de la destruction. Grâce à son auditorium, Station F accueillera de nombreux événements liés à la "tech", mais aussi culturels. L'auditorium de Station F permet d'asseoir plus de 300 personnes. Station F offre près de 3000 stations de travail, pour 195 euros par mois, à deux pas de la BNF qu'on aperçoit ici par la fenêtre. A terme, une passerelle enjambera les voies de circulation pour relier directement les deux bâtiments. Qui dit start up dit état d'esprit particulier. Les baby foot sont bien là pour soulager le stress. Au fond, les poufs de couleurs attendent leur start upper pour des réunions créatives. D'ici la fin de l'année, cet espace fermé au moment de notre visite sera un restaurant ouvert 24h/24 et 7j/7. Les repas seront aussi servis dans les deux wagons conservés.
Le quartier se reconstruit peu à peu autour du bâtiment, à deux pas de la bibliothèque François-Mitterrand. Avec six nouvelles voies dont une rendra hommage à Eugène Freyssinet (le père du béton précontraint) mais pas de rue Steve-Jobs. Car les élus communistes et écologistes ont dénoncé "l'optimisation fiscale" pratiquée par Apple, le groupe du gourou de la tech disparu en 2011.

Xavier Niel, qui approche la cinquantaine, joue le rôle de l'oncle généreux. "Si vous avez plus de 40 ans, vous n'êtes pas légitime à être là", s'amuse-t-il. Son équipe a 28 ans en moyenne.

Déjà mécène de l'école de développeurs informatiques 42, il a investi 250 millions d'euros dans Station F, tirés de sa cassette personnelle. Et il assume: "C'est un usage peut-être moins idiot de mon argent que de le donner à mes enfants qui en feront des bêtises, probablement!"

L'acquisition et la restructuration du bâtiment sont à fonds perdus. "On n'est pas là pour avoir une forme de rentabilité", mais "ce que l'on souhaite, c'est que tous les frais variables soient couverts par les recettes" - apports des occupants, produits des manifestations ou recettes des restaurants -, dit-il, les coûts de fonctionnement étant estimés à entre "sept et huit millions par an".

"Notre truc à nous, c'est d'aider l'écosystème, aider des jeunes à créer des start-up", résume Xavier Niel.

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STATION F is the world's biggest startup campus. The 34,000 sq meters building is divided into 3 zones: here you can visit the SHARE Zone where you can find: - a fablab by Techshop - a 370-seat auditorium and other event spaces - a post-office - a pop-up store - services for startups - a coffee shop - cool tech companies, VCs and partners.

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Emmanuel Macron a inauguré la Station F, en compagnie de la maire de Paris Anne Hidalgo é dans la Halle Freyssinet à Paris - Bertrand Guay/AFP

+VIDEO. Le plus grand incubateur de start-up au monde, Station F, a été lancé jeudi soir à Paris par le président et la maire de la capitale Anne Hidalgo.

Le président de la future " start-up nation" était comme un poisson dans l'eau à l'inauguration du plus grand incubateur de start-up au monde, Station F. Devant un public de centaines d'entrepreneurs et d'étudiants conquis, il a comparé son parcours à celui d'un entrepreneur.

"Il y a trois ans, j'avais promis à ma femme que j'arrêterais totalement la vie politique et que j'allais créer une entreprise", a-t-il raconté, après avoir visité pendant une demi-heure les deux halls de cet ancienne gare de fret, transformée par le fondateur de Free, Xavier Niel, en un lieu unique pour accueillir plus d'un millier de jeunes pousses.

"J'ai ensuite pivoté de business model et les choses se sont faites en marchant", a-t-il dit sur le ton de l'humour. "Beaucoup de gens m'ont dit "ça ne marchera jamais", puis on a dit "ce type est tout seul", d'autres "il n'y a pas de business model", puis "il n'y a pas d'investisseurs", "il n'y aura pas de clients", puis "c'est devenu presque une secte". Et à la fin on l'a fait."

Extrait du discours d'@EmmanuelMacron pour l'inauguration de la #StationF #StationFLaunch #Klassroom @joinstationf @roxannevarza pic.twitter.com/4aSgQ80dp9
- Klassroom (@KlassroomFrance) 29 juin 2017

"Entrepreneur is the new France"

"Je ne résume pas la vie politique française à la vie d'une entreprise. Mais ce qui nous rassemble ici aujourd'hui est cet esprit entrepreneurial, cette volonté de dire "beaucoup de gens ont voulu écrire ma vie, moi j'ai décidé autrement"", a conclu le président. "Changez le pays !" a-t-il conclu. "Mais faites-le toujours avec cette immense ambition, cette immense exigence, qui sera celle de votre génération. Entrepreneur is the new France".

"Longue vie à Station F" @EmmanuelMacron @joinstationf pic.twitter.com/GqCI7hBUjI
- Jérôme Colombain (@JeromeColombain) 29 juin 2017

Comme à chaque fois qu'il se retrouve au milieu du public, il s'est prêté avec le sourire aux demandes de selfies des visiteurs, en compagnie de son épouse Brigitte.

Hello M. President ?? @EmmanuelMacron @Elysee pic.twitter.com/jK6DNwyp56
- StationF (@joinstationf) 29 juin 2017

Pour comprendre la folie #Macron à #StationF pic.twitter.com/aRrIqlO6MF
- Melinda Davan-Soulas (@Melinda_DS) 29 juin 2017

Avec à ses côtés le secrétaire d'Etat au Numérique Mounir Mahjoubi, le président a été accueilli par Xavier Niel et sa compagne, Delphine Arnault, la maire de Paris, Anne Hidalgo, et la directrice de Station F, Roxanne Varza.

Visite des impressionnantes installations de la #StationF en compagnie d'@EmmanuelMacron, de @Xavier75 et de @roxannevarza #Paris pic.twitter.com/tdcD9lq1pQ
- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) 29 juin 2017

Il a bavardé avec plusieurs fondateurs de start-up, dont Antoine Martin, cofondateur de Zenly (application qui permet de géolocaliser ses amis), qui vient de se faire racheter par Snap. "On peut tricher ?", lui a demandé Brigitte Macron. On lui dit que oui. "C'est rassurant", sourit-elle.

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Macron ovationné par les entrepreneurs à Station F

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Le président de la future " start-up nation" était comme un poisson dans l'eau à l'inauguration du plus grand incubateur de start-up au monde, Station F. Devant un public de centaines d'entrepreneurs et d'étudiants conquis, il a comparé son parcours à celui d'un entrepreneur.

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With more than 30 startup programs, 35 public administrations, 150 VC funds, 4 mentorship offices and 600 events per year, STATION F offers all the best resources and knowledge to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. Startups will benefit from the community and meet other great entrepreneurs.

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Taking Colocation Exponential with Station F's Roxanne Varza at Disrupt London 2016

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Station F's Roxanne Varza chats with Mike Butcher about the enormous coworking space they're building in the heart of Paris, including the VCs, incubators, and Facebook project who'll be housed there.