so hello we are happy to be here
because what unites us so much
nicolas and I mean we have a word that
is tattooed on the heart
it’s the word entrepreneurship because
it changed our lives completely
changed our lives literally
entrepreneurship foremost for me
it’s a question of patient ideas
and history and I am convinced that
if we knew the history of all
products that we consume we would consume
totally different
yes and I will tell you my
story in fact I’m coming from a
rather modest family I have been
raised in a lot of emotion when
I talk about it in the basement of the house
grandparents who had been
converted into an apartment and me
I was convinced that I was going to
out of the basement before very
long on school benches me I
wanted is lawyer me I wanted to be
doctor me I wanted to go to
the university and at the age of 13 14 years
but my life has like rocking because
my parents who were all
bad of speech but who had
really different beliefs from
have taught me that not only
I will not go long on the benches
school but I do not know my
secondary 5 general so me my life has
really rocked but at the same time
in two months I think I had some
stick blood I was convinced he
there was something big that
was waiting for me but I did not know what
and there I was in the market of
working with a salary of 7 dollars of
the time I was stenodactylo on
call it that way in that time
and I was really looking for
something big and a good day
I lost my job
in fact to tell you true I was
fired and I saw a big fat
black tunnel I have just with me in the
life had never anything that you who
wanted to walk with me but know
you what me is the day of my
dismissal that it became the most
nice day of my life because me
I thought the dismissal
it was the end but it was not true
it was just the beginning of something
something new or I was going to become
entrepreneur so I went to
business the game or in my
dismissal with the following assets
Payments end of the month
always I always remembered in
the hard times I remembered
from the famous sentence of walt disney
who says avery no deadlines
I had my payments end of the month
I was very relentless
hard tracking is not necessary
to have as many but I had
normally but I had some
perseverance and there I worked
work I wanted so much
visibility I wanted so much that
everyone in quebec can give me
know to do business with my
business
I try to participate in all
possible and impossible competitions and a
day I did a great madness I saw
two
in this journal I saw that they had
a big trade mission that
went to China with the first
Minister Lucien Bouchard and I had
a few contracts québec I had
only 1 unlike toronto
not even a Montreal contract today
I went to China and his live
what I did a big prayer there
comes the day before my departure since
I asked the good god is that
really that the plane can have the
wind in face so we can stay
an hour more time on the plane
why because 21h22 hours of flight
with 159 Quebec entrepreneurs
I said to myself I see all the
convince them to do business with
doors were dead and that’s the
people could land this
extraordinary
so what happens to you and yes we have
doubled turnover it was a
extraordinary experience my
business is really taken a lot
of magnitude and finally one day I
been bought by a very big groups
my story made the headlines
how I felt but very
shared in success why because
that at the time in the early years
2000 hi to québec when we talk
money is still a little
difficult and then there are some who
said phrases like good of
secretary is a millionaire
I was so afraid of judgment that
I was afraid of that but at the same time
I received so many messages from people
who told me my god is the proof
that everything is possible with a course of
secondary 5 stenodactylo or summer
managed to make a company in the
internet technologies then I got
said for sure I have to have a
mission to accomplish but I did not know
not what but I knew something about
great was expecting me definitely
everything started at the university me I
wanted to be an architect but when I
I looked at what was needed and
especially what the r rating that was needed
to be bought I knew that
I was not going and go we’ll get
no kidding did not know that it could
go up to the seahawks a rating r the watch
I was just a leader there is in
needed two and we forget that but the
in short I love
after by after I fell and then I
were looking for another program of study
and then I decided to love it is
accepted in political science because
we are all accepted in science
policies so threw a d7000 this
year is accepted and this is at
the inertia that I discovered
entrepreneurship you can not
understand how much I discovered
a universe that opened that covered the
world
I wanted to invent the fork I
wanted to reinvent the chair I was doing
business plans plans
business
I had two trends at university
you had to have 60 to pass a
trend that I respected 60.00 all
the courses the second that’s true I
do the best in there the second
I was the king of the beginnings of plans
business the number of business plans
that I started you do not understand
three pages after I got bored but
you do not understand how much
I was actually I was
moment to attend the ties a moment
given it was I do not know me it was
the airline all of a sudden I
finished universities then 1
I have a bachelor’s degree in political science
Call me political scientist
I still do not know today what
that’s so you imagine I knew
not where is applied I decided to
to start a business with three of my
best friends are walking out much
really came out that much it can
justify the notes from the past and I had
noticed that we are three years old
four we wanted to start
business so we decided to open a
resto bar
little friend’s advice it’s not because
we like to eat at the restaurant
can have a restaurant this is one of that
advice like that listen to that was
but in the history of restoration
World
it was one of the most beautiful failures
No kidding
the flowers we received at the opening
was not a fan and when we closed ok
you do not understand here especially that you
are nice workers of the same in
failure but brief
but if but at the restaurant that I have
discovered the popularity of the 25th day
I offered my partners the
buy back they refused
I left the restaurant empty-handed
because I decided to sell
my shares and then I remembered
in one sentence that my mother tells me
said I was in sport study at
basketball in the college cegep we lost
did nicolas the important thing it’s not the
number of faults fall these names from
fake titles at ease
I took this sentence anchored jelly
in my memory then I told myself
but this time I was going into
vodka know what’s on the engine
google search that my life has changed
because I sing I typed five
letters vo cases to and that’s like that
for your elder then I have no
sell my business according to me said the
life must be beautiful and all that ben no
I had a depression during
three months because I recognized myself
the more I did not know who I was
I put a lot identified in the
world of business orders with my
business card because that’s where
people are starting to tell me you are
good this is good things and me
it encourages me a lot so
I was so mix that I
did not know what to do I found myself
often curiously you will see the
synchronicity of life I am
often found in restaurants
cora that ever full of books with me
I let go I read
thought to let go have you
let go
did I let go no I got
am told to even you have brown eyes and
brown hair and and a contractor
who will you continue to do
entrepreneurship because that makes me
a second success is excessively
difficult why this canton by whom we
had nothing we have nothing to lose
but when we have someone we are afraid of
lose it if one is afraid of managing the
risk we do it we no longer handles the
risk in the same way so I’m
am told what am I going to do
I felt less than I wanted to leave
my son because I am
single I left him more that
a bank account
I wanted to leave him an inheritance
a heirloom greater accent that
was to make a difference in the
other people’s lives because retained the thing
next when we have success it’s
liked the greatest of successes
when we got one
it’s the difference in that
in success in the prosperity of
others and there I said to myself I’m going
edit a TV show that
is going to be called tall then I want
highlight all the
entrepreneurs who are in their bottom of the
only who type of you as your
place on google and I go all the
really bring out light boxes and
call madness maid needed
notoriety and is known to
quebec as it could not I
will leave that my pilgrim’s staff and
2006 no show on
Entrepreneurship in Quebec I have
produced the first show on
Entrepreneurship in Quebec I have
met 1500 young entrepreneurs who
each had three minutes to
present their project I’ve seen
common denominators on these
entrepreneurs of the denominators that me
looked so much like people who
had problems in order to y words
with their payments people
was suffering from isolation because you
know there is an English expression that
said stop we feel alone with our dreams
and our ambitions sometimes people we
look they do not understand what we
is doing but it was all
people who really had their eyes
sizzling and a day at the delta hotel
Montreal we are doing the
auditions then a big fellow of 6
feet 4 which fortunately a big
guy of 6 feet 5 who comes to do
the hearing and all the judges of the
auditions to see big fall in love
we fall in love
nicolas I still remember because
I was a producer
director we did everything in this
project there because nobody there
thought
I still remember what you have
said we are told if we tell you this is
taboo theil like that you said me
I like to ride the best your
order
québec do not know then this is the
best your order by this long
months according to experts in london
had marked the camp and when is
went out and when came out I told
appointed judges and extraordinary all the
world was unanimous yes we take it
I just said a little budget
extra for makeup because
that the gonidec man has pinpointed what
we did not know what was happening
life its pitou floors at night and
it was almost three years
half which I had floors
at the hospital Sainte-Justine I say not
I do not like washing the floors
there is a limit I have a post-doc
floor wash today but brief
it was my wife today my wife
my girlfriend checks my parents my sister
who helped me through all these
years ago it was donkeys
eternal in religion a saint
Trinity is also has a longer
more expensive more complicated than expected you
say amen supporting his case
no I put a lot of jokes
today because if I told
how I lived it I ‘ll be in
crying not understand crepe
feels alone and then one day I
said I washed but floor know the
technique of being for why not
missed a single dust and then I
told me and I was expecting you to
see the business of entrepreneurship
which was starting to be one of the engines
who charge young entrepreneurs
to give them more tips or
less doubtful I groped to see
Big data companies vary
so for entrepreneurial causes
but ultimately what leaves you with a
logo on a building
I was alone washing the
floors 17 banks refused me 17
banks refused me
you go there is no ten is
now but some banks I
did different branches here
the answer is the same I speak between
they speak to each other I became you
a rumor in the city
there as a guy who walk around who
doss alan wants that brief case but a
day I had the floor and then I
am told if I was so mad
if one day I have the chance to succeed I
will do everything to not be what
is said a parent of which only one young
entrepreneur that time that time
has come a lot faster than
planned
a few years later I had a
little baby but victoria and I
decided to write a book because I
wanted the window in a
different environment than I have
known and I wanted her to remember
in i love to say she is 16 months old of which 3
4 months when he will read my book that
is smart that what you want
but I wanted them to know that
did his parents do
what did his parents have in
train take as a way for for
reach where they are rendered
today I did not want her to be
the ten years yes my parents they have a
business debt it works well
I especially wanted to think because yes
but not before there are evenings that
did not eat that’s what I wanted
she remembers very quickly
in this book the bay I told myself
what can I not do that I can
I will not tell my story there
must be I run a pole
business world it has to be the
entrepreneurial dead model changes and
that’s where in this book that I have
wrote that adopted a physio and that’s where
to present to you all that everyone
speak exactly
yes in fact I remember this
the moment I lived with you
called me until 2 am
but you know when nicolas got me
sent his manuscript with his
I should have made a selphy because
that I looked like alice cooper
so elapsed masquerade because
I cried
why because my name appeared
many times you know times we
makes a difference in the lives of
others but there is an expression that
I love one who says data without
wait but nicolas had received without
forget that it had moved me a lot
because I tell myself exactly what
I want my son to remember
when I will be there anymore who see that my
name appears in the books of young people
successful entrepreneurs and camp
gilles adopting i said nicolas i’m going
to be the co-founder I want us to
together make friends colleagues whose
we will seek partners
institutional illegitimate college and
who are not you anymore?
even we can not tell me how
it brings back that’s it then j 10 kg
a few years older than you I have
said must be used so I have
used my friends contacts in life
it’s not fair what we know
who knows who can do the
difference
I study some contacts I managed
to present a mycologist really
great companies that we have
need when going into business
and then we only work and started the
opt-in move then me to get
why did it come to get me because
they cost is the adopted name
why it’s called adopting janicot
lost extraordinary this mark of
trade there because when we adopt
someone is because a notion
love is because we love
no one is taught in our family
adopted it means taking care of a
nobody means sometimes leave
his place to really give the
light to another person so
in the field of entrepreneurship
this lot notion of love I found that
it makes all that really
entrepreneurship very much
human then honestly the best
no one to explain to you what is it
the movement is nicolas listening
adopts actuate a dream but it’s
become a reality if that I love
of entrepreneurship also the power
of an idea me what it gives is
a personal movement that’s what
I would have dreamed to receive when I
had the floor it’s so simple
that there are many others who
exists and thank god there are scholarships
Mentoring
but there was no experience
unique over a period more or less
12-month-long that encompassed all
that a young entrepreneur needed
what is a young entrepreneur
need a salary a salary a
entrepreneur needs a salary like
everyone else
so we offer a salary to our young people
entrepreneurs it’s not luxury it’s this
what I did when I had it
floor his 25 meters in the parano
but less having received 25 thousand dollars
by year when I touched the floor
to focus on my water
actually rather than torch and planks
and believe me it’s like I
had just won the lottery
then we give some kind of mentoring
networking but with the tenors of the
business world
we are lucky to have an unblocker on
late layer founder guy cormier the
pdg dejardins clear for merlot brief
all names that make everyone dream
young entrepreneurs but I wanted
to make this famous link there between a young
entrepreneur and six entrepreneurs to
success there they will go meet
once a month once a month
met alain bouchard
once in his life it’s a chance
unique then we will give some
training tailor-made training
for entrepreneurs why because
that me through my journey I
applied four times in four
different universities to do my
Masters in Business Administration
and the four universities refused me
why because I had 60.00 of
average in political science
but I find it ridiculous what this is
that means finally notes
What does it mean
so we give tailor-made training
we give training on innovation
the importance of good practice in
business brief we have the number of
specialized training for
young entrepreneurs and lately we
bring them back to life
we make them live a real
business experience we place them on
board of directors why
saw a moment I had to do
a board of directors for
accompany me
right off the bat because I wanted
to be well surrounded but charles pasqua
because when you wash planks and
no one wants you on the advice
of administration we agree it’s
catastrophic
so no places on the boards
of administration at this observatory
so that they can live the moment
Bright is however would
entrepreneurship so it’s a
unique entrepreneurial experience on
12 months when we offer a salary of
Mentoring networking of very high
level of training
a real experience in the world
Business
we made our first resort already
400 young people proposed young
emerging entrepreneurs have proposed
their candidacy 25 entrepreneurs have
been adopted five privileged are
personally adopted by large
business personalities
honestly I want to tell you when
I saw you go back to spin
audition have big I knew you
will be flamboyant winner of the series
televised I was happy because
Quebec has so much inspiration
heroes and over- indebted models
nicolas but I have a lot of emotion
to tell you that chance is to find
people who know how to use it then I
think we managed to use it
both of us made the move
adopting then I think that what we are
doing this is the concept of
the butterfly effect that says that every
small flapping wing so small be it
will finish one day or another to make a
big difference and that’s what
does because our entrepreneurs
emerging that they have this fund adopted
by large staff as soon as a little
they will become big they have the
social and moral responsibility
to adopt in turn we really want to
do the whole concept of the effect
butterfly and I am convinced that we can
make a difference because know
a society that is missing
of entrepreneurs it is a society that
is getting poorer and I ‘m going to end up with
telling you a sentence that is very
important to me an entrepreneur
it’s not just a creator
job creators wealth is
first and foremost a pride creator thank you
much more
[Applause]
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