PORTRAIT – His offer for the rescue of the IT group has just been preferred to that of Daniel Kretinsky. A victory for this 45-year-old entrepreneur who has been patiently preparing for two years to swallow the former French flagship on the verge of bankruptcy.
Does David Layani remember this? It was in 2009, he was just 27 years old. Already head of the digital services company Onepoint, which he had founded seven years earlier, the young manager was still playing the most prestigious poker tables on the European circuit. During a game in Barcelona, during a round where his pair of Aces in the draw assured him the best possible hand, the young entrepreneur allowed himself to be trapped, after the drawing of the other three cards, by the bluff of the American Phil Ivey, leading a set of 6. Black glasses on his face, David Layani had lost a good part of his winnings after this “bad-beat”.
The entrepreneur put his cards down shortly after, but business life brought him back to the table. In the liar poker game for the takeover of Atos, David Layani has long been mocked for the weakness of his hand. In the fall, when he seized 10% of the capital of Atos, aspiring to play a central role in the destiny…
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