Benjamin Bejbaum is a French entrepreneur and computer programmer, who is particularly known for being co-founder of

Dailymotion Dailymotion is a French video-sharing technology platform owned by Vivendi. North American launch partners included Vice Media, Bloomberg and Hearst Digital Media. It is among the earliest known platforms to support HD ( 720p) resolution v ...

video-sharing site with Olivier Poitrey. He was the CEO of the company. During that time, he was responsible for the strategy of the

start-up A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend t ...

Life and education

Bejbaum was born on November 20, 1976, in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

. He attended Gérard de Nerval High School, Luzarches (

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.< ...

). He then enrolled at the university in Villetaneuse (

Seine-Saint-Denis () is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the region. In French, it is often referred to colloquially as ' or ' ("ninety-three" or "nine three"), after its official administrative number, 93. Its prefecture is Bob ...

) to study applied mathematics and information sciences.

DailyMotion

In March 2005, Bejbaum founded

, along with Olivier Poitrey. A year later, the video site got $9.5 million from Atlas Ventures and Partech International a year later. After hiring Zaleski from QXL as executive chairman, he got $34 million led by Adventure Partners and AGF Private Equity in August 2007. In December 2008, Benjamin Bejbaum left the day-to-day operations at the company while Mark Zalesky took his position. After that, he continued on the board of the start-up.

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