Pierre Entremont

Who they are

Pierre Entremont is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Frst — he also co-founded Les Pigeons, a grassroots movement that successfully changed French startup legislation.

Person

Pierre came up through HEC Paris (Master in Management, 2009–2013), with a prior Classe Préparatoire at Ipesup — the standard French grande école track. After graduating he moved through management consulting at McKinsey, private equity at IK Investment Partners, and an operational stint at Rocket Internet, before landing at eFounders, the Paris startup studio. He joined what would become Frst in 2015, when it was still called Otium Venture and raising its initial fund. In 2019 the firm rebranded to Frst, sharpening its identity around Day One investing — backing founders before most VCs would even take the meeting, with a stated process of 2 meetings or 48 hours or less. Along the way he co-founded DandyBox (2012, a startup side project), Les Pigeons (2012, a movement that successfully influenced French startup legislation), and ran Le Crypto Fellowship at lecryptofellowship.com, a crypto-focused community. Possibly — his time at ConsenSys as a blockchain consultant fed directly into the crypto fellowship. He writes at pentremont.medium.com on entrepreneurship, VC, NFTs, and the future of personal AI assistants, and has spoken on GDIY, Little Big Things, and Start The F Up about what early-stage investing actually looks like — and about making Paris a global startup hub.

How they likely show up

Frst's stated process of 2 meetings or 48 hours or less → he decides fast and likely expects founders — and meeting partners — to come in prepared, not to use early conversations as exploratory warm-ups.
Day One investing focus across 70+ companies → he's pattern-matched on early signals more than most; he'll read the room quickly and appreciate directness over polish.
Founded Les Pigeons to influence legislation, not just to comment on it → high agency, willing to go outside conventional channels to get things done.
Active Medium writer covering entrepreneurship, VC, NFTs, and AI assistants → comfortable publishing views publicly; likely engages well when you've read something he wrote and have a reaction to it.
Career moved consulting → PE → Rocket Internet → eFounders → own fund → suggests he was deliberately acquiring different lenses (financial, operational, product, founder) before committing capital at scale.
Hybrid role type and mixed tenure shape across prior stops → probably not someone who stays for comfort; moves when the learning curve flattens.

Conversation tips

→ Reference a specific post from pentremont.medium.com — he publishes his views, so citing one signals you've done more than a LinkedIn skim.
→ Ask about the Otium Venture → Frst rebrand — the rename and focus sharpening in 2019 is a deliberate strategic choice worth unpacking.
→ Don't treat the 48-hour decision framework as a gimmick — it's a thesis about how early-stage conviction works; engage with it seriously.
→ If crypto or AI comes up, he has strong views from both investing and first-hand community-building (Le Crypto Fellowship, Comand AI) — he'll distinguish quickly between people who've thought about it and those who haven't.
→ He's publicly invested in Paris as a global startup hub (GDIY podcast title: 'Faire de Paris le hotspot des startups du monde') — that's a genuine conviction, not PR talking point.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on Les Pigeons — he co-founded a grassroots movement in 2012 that actually changed French startup legislation; that's an unusual origin story for a VC and signals how he thinks about system-level change.
Reference his Medium post on personal AI assistants — he's writing about the future of AI from an investor's seat, and it's a more specific and current angle than generic 'AI is big' conversation.
Bring up the Frst Day One thesis directly: 2 meetings, 48 hours or less. Ask what signal, in those two meetings, makes him move — it's the core of how he operates and he'll have a real answer.

Discovery questions

Across 70+ companies invested at Day One, what's the single signal that most reliably predicts whether a founder will push through the first major inflection — and has that signal changed as AI changes what a solo founder can build?
You co-founded Les Pigeons to change legislation from the outside — do you still play that kind of ecosystem-shaping role, or has the fund scale shifted you into a more capital-allocation mode?
The Frst portfolio includes poolside and Flexion Robotics — quite different bets. Is there a unifying thesis about what 'unique entrepreneur' means to you across software and hardware, or are those genuinely separate conviction tracks?

Avoid

Don't open with general observations about the French tech scene being 'on the rise' — he's been building it since 2012 and has specific, strong views; lead with a particular detail or you'll sound like you read a headline.

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