Born in in a shop for cookware, silverware and other spoon-shaped souvenirs, JM settled (with his family) in one of Paris’ district called “Le Marais” when he was 5.

At age 7 and upon his insistence to go to the Synagogue, his mother registered him to catechism.

At age 8, noticed for precocious school achievements and despite a fairly dark skin complexion, he is invited to the Élysée palace for Christmas, where the French President in person presents him with a pair of rollers. Despite multiple attempts, he never managed to have them stick on his lapel.

At age 12, JM builds his first computer out of matches, stickers and colored beads. The contraption was able to learn by itself how to find an optimal strategy for simple board games like tic-tac-toe. JM then gives up accumulating matchboxes in his bedroom –much to the relief of his mother- and decides to dedicate instead to software, a task requiring much less space.

At some point, he decided to leave for California, in the mistaken hope he could learn to speak English.

Dude, who could resist Caliphonia’s call?

After a few years at XEROX PARC co-inventing a new field of computer science, he branched off and became a multimillionaire with the sale of a first start-up.

Being wealthy in the US has its perks, among them, the pool! Not only does it clean automatically (with the help of expensive devices attached to South American labor) but it’s also automatically filling up with guests. Guests who are excruciatingly single and adamantly insisting that no, they are not cold, and perfectly comfortable wearing a swimsuit in November.

The next few years were spent creating more start-ups, until he lost everything in the real-estate bubble and ended up completely broke after a steep American divorce. He returned to France with his tail held low -but still bushy and wagging away- to realize with horror he didn’t even buy a Rolex watch.

He is now living in La Rochelle, a city whose fabric is made of middle ages and ... modernities.