France’s Most Valuable Start-Up’s Raison D’être Is Creating A Circular Economy For Tech

You could say being an entrepreneur was almost destiny for Thibaud Hug de Larauze, who grew up in a family of them. His father, grandfather and two brothers are all entrepreneurs, so talk about building a business was ordinary dinner conversation. What’s not so ordinary is that Hug de Lauraze heads France’s most valuable startup – a company formed in 2014 and now worth more than $5.7 billion, based on a recent funding round of $510 million. Overall, the company, Back Market has attracted more than $1b in VC investment.

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