How Pascal Finette overcame the $2.5M failure of his first company

Pascal Finette, Oil on Mars, European Founder, Failure, International Founders

Today’s guest is incredibly well-known. His name is Pascal Finette.

He was director of Mozilla Labs. He was Head of Platform Solutions Group at eBay. He was even a portfolio manager at Google.

He’s here to talk about his really interesting past.  I’m especially curious about the company he launched early in his career that he called, “The dumbest company on the planet.”

My team and I were tried to find information about it but couldn’t. So Pascal is here to tell us what happened.

 

Pascal Finette

Oil on Mars

Pascal Finette is a serial entrepreneur.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious–and also today I’m perplexed. I’ve got a guest here with me. His name is Pascal Finette.

He is incredibly well-known. He is the Managing Director of Singularity University. He was director of Mozilla Labs. I’m just looking through your LinkedIn profile here, Pascal. You are perplexing me. You were Head of Platform Solutions Group at eBay. You’re really well-known–portfolio manager at Google for like, what, 90 days, you said, something like that?

Pascal: All of 90 days. Yeah.

Andrew: All of 90 days. So, you have a really interesting past. Here’s the thing that I’m especially curious about, this company called Oil on Mars that you launched early on your career that you called–what did you call it, “The stupidest idea?”

Pascal: Yeah. Probably.

Andrew: Yeah,...

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