Ξthan Pierse 🦙🤖

Author, The AI-First Entrepreneurship Economy
Borderless Ventures
I build products, companies, community
Global keynote speaker
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@RaiseSummit Tickets are here: https://t.co/dyfZ2oSRAw

25% off with my Ambassador code ETHAN25

[Ξthan Pierse 🦙🤖 @EthanPierse]

The Sovereign AI conversation in France starts at the top. President Macron will deliver the opening remarks on Wednesday morning for the first day of RAISE AI Summit in Paris.

🎟️ 🔥 Still haven't decided to attend? You can get 25% of all ticket types for @RaiseSummit and @MACHINASUMMIT (Intelligent Robotics / Physical AI) with my Ambassador code ETHAN25.

Don't miss one of the most important weeks of the year in Artificial Intelligence:

→ 15000 attendees
→ 500+ rockstar speakers
→ 4000 enterprise companies and startup
→ 50+ ecosystem events

This is one of the best networking and connecting events globally for meeting everyone you need to know building the future (and present) of AI.

Catch me on stage on Wednesday as I MC the CxO Summit...this year RAISE attendees include 1345 CxO across sectors and over 800 CEOs.

I'll also be MCing the Ada Lovelace stage on the afternoon of the 9th with incredible discussions planned around AI in Marketing, Hardware AI, Open Source AI, Sustainability, and AI Sovereignty. You won't want to miss it.

Happy to meet up with you and talk about my upcoming new book, The AI-First Entrepreneurship Economy, and everything related to small-team entrepreneurship empowered by agentic and generative AI, low-code dev, and the creator economy.

Questions? Let me know below.

Who's coming to Paris for RAISE? 👀 🙌🏻

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TLDR: 25% off RAISE with code ETHAN25

Excited to announce that I will be MCing the CxO Summit at @RaiseSummit. I love getting to present incredible entrepreneurs and speakers like these to such a high-caliber audience focused on Enterprise AI.

The CxO Summit is a private, invitation-only forum for CxOs of the world's largest enterprises and CEOs of category-defining AI companies, taking place July 8 at the Carrousel du Louvre.

🎟️ As an Ambassador for RAISE, I can offer you 25% off all PRO and VIP tickets with my discount code: ETHAN25

RAISE PRO: 1499€ instead of 1999€
RAISE VIP: 2624€ instead of 3499€
MACHINA PRO: 674€ instead of 899€
MACHINA VIP: 1199€ instead of 1599€
You can also get 25% off tickets to both events on the MACHINA website.

CxO Summit is:
→ 822 CEOs in attendance
→ 1,345 CxOs across sectors
→ 168 Fortune 500 Companies
→ 1,500 C-Levels and Founders

Themes:
1. Value Realisation & Capital Allocation
From hype to ROI: how CxOs justify investments, optimise build/buy/blend strategies, and communicate measurable impact to boards and stakeholders.

2. Data & Scaling
Tackling the unstructured data crisis, implementing robust MLOps practices, and transforming governance into a true enabler of AI growth.

3. Agentic AI & Autonomy
Preparing enterprises for the structural shift towards agent-based systems, balancing new revenue engines with ethical frameworks and human oversight.

4. Global Risk & Regulation
Navigating digital sovereignty, cross-border compliance, liability considerations, and IP protection in a rapidly fragmenting geopolitical landscape.

5. Sector-Specific Roadmaps
Action-oriented strategies tailored for Finance, Media, Technology, Energy, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, and Consumer industries.

See you in 2 weeks 🙌🏻

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This America 250 Celebration is brilliant. Inspirational and 100% the United States that the world is waiting on and hoping for.

Time to Make America Great Again

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[Grégory Raymond 🐳 @gregory_raymond]

🔴 Exclusive @TheBigWhale_

MiCA: France, Binance's Last Resort in Europe

According to our reporting, France is now Binance's only viable option to maintain access to the European market.

Discussions are underway with the AMF, but no formal application has been filed.

This scenario follows the Greek rejection revealed yesterday by Reuters, which we are in a position to confirm.

And the behind-the-scenes story of this rejection is more political than regulatory.

According to our sources, the Greek regulator (HCMC) had deemed the application complete and compliant with MiCA.

The block reportedly came from the top: Christine Lagarde is said to have directly signaled to the Greek Prime Minister that Binance was not welcome in Europe. The directive was then reportedly passed on to the Finance Minister, and from there to the HCMC.

The ECB president's presumed motivation is believed to be linked to stablecoins.

Binance is the primary liquidity channel for these assets in Europe. Cutting off its access to this market would amount to forcibly strengthening the position of the future digital euro.

On the French side, the Treasury and Tracfin (financial intelligence agency) are reportedly pushing for Binance to be supervised from Paris.

The rationale: maintaining visibility over the platform's financial flows, which would disappear if it left the European market.

All our reporting in our investigation, available in open access below

https://t.co/0yhbJsFtRW

[Gareth Jenkinson @gazza_jenks]

I am reliably informed that ECB president Christine Lagarde directly ordered Greece to reject Binance’s MiCA license application.

My source said Binance had essentially been given the green light by Greece’s regulator, before the ECB stepped in.

Not good news for crypto if the ECB is ultimately pulling the strings.

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I knew The Handmaid's Tale was fiction...@MargaretAtwood didn't even get the color of the Reflecting Pool right

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It's almost time for @VivaTech Paris. If you still need to grab your badge, you can get 20% off all ticket types: attendee, startup, and investor passes with my VivaTech discount code: ETHAN20

What's on your Viva Tech schedule for this week?

→ Macron (woohoo!)
→ Jeff Bezos
→ Shri Narendra Modi
→ 🦄 Peter Steinberger from OpenClaw
→ Yann LeCun from AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence
→ Joe Tsai from Alibaba
→ Alexis Ohanian Sr. from Reddit and Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣
→ Tim Berners-Lee
→ 14,000 startups
→ Everything and everyone La French Tech that you need to know and meet to do business in the French innovation ecosystem

Which of the 10 themes are you most interested in this year?

– Artificial Intelligence – Impact, Not Illusion​
– Productivity Reimagined – Is the future of work still working?
– Sovereignty & Ethics – Who controls the future: nations, platforms, or algorithms?
– Energy, Greentech & Mobility – Our planet at a turning point
– Cybersecurity & Defense – Can innovation outsmart the next threat?
– Health & Longevity – What happens when humans become upgradeable?
– Risk, Build, Scale – High stakes, new tech and uneven odds
– Creative Industries – Technology can generate. But can it create?
– Tech Beyond the Obvious – From Deeptech and Radical Science to Practical ingenuity
– CMO Summit – Rewriting the Playbook for Attention
– Tech Leaders Summit – Make It Work. Make It Scale.

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Don't forget: 20% off all ticket types: attendee, startup, and investor passes with my VivaTech discount code: ETHAN20
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Who's in Paris this week? See you tomorrow !

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My Fable 5 access is back!

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Only 7 days left until France Quantum in Paris 🇫🇷 🙌🏻

Still need a ticket to the best event in quantum? The lovely folks at Artefact made me an Ambassador which means I can give you 20% off of your ticket with discount code ETHAN20.

@FranceQuantum is the most important quantum ecosystem event in Europe, bringing over 1500 researchers, startups, and industry leaders to Paris to network and discover trends and innovation in the quantum space.

We'll kick off with the 5th-edition welcome from France Quantum's founders alongside the head of France's National Quantum Strategy, Loïc Le Loarer, followed by honorary, startup, and PhD award ceremonies.

Morning sessions will cover:
– fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC),
– real-world quantum computing use cases featuring industrial players like Renault, BBVA, and Matmut,
– and hardware roadmaps from emerging companies including C12, Quobly, and Alice & Bob (the latter unveiling its first cat-qubit system, "Helium").

Then on to:
– cybersecurity in the quantum age (with ANSSI - Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information and QPerfect),
– a fireside chat on how E.ON Digital Technology and IBM are exploring quantum for energy,
– and a discussion of quantum technologies for aerospace, defense, and security with Boeing and Denmark's foreign ministry.

The afternoon will shift toward strategy, policy, and ecosystem-building, anchored by a one-on-one interview with OVHcloud founder Octave Klaba and talks on space and Earth-intelligence applications and new algorithm-discovery platforms like Merlin.

Policy and investment dominate the mid-afternoon, with panels:
– asking whether Europe's Quantum Act is an asset for competitiveness,
– how to invest in quantum beyond the hype,
– and how to bridge the global "quantum divide" toward a more inclusive agenda with UNESCO and the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC).

The schedule will close out discussing:
– quantum intellectual property,
– the role and limits of QKD for secure communications (with Airbus and Télécom Paris),
– quantum's impact on healthcare and drug discovery (Qubit Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim),
– and a wide-ranging look at international collaboration with voices from the OECD, Quantum Australia, and European research centers,

before wrapping with the official launch of a defense-focused quantum hackathon.

🎟️ I'll post the ticket link below...don't forget, 20% off with my Ambassador code ETHAN20.

[Ξthan Pierse 🦙🤖 @EthanPierse]

Everyone in AI will be in Paris this July for @RaiseSummit as well as @MACHINASUMMIT for physical AI / intelligent robotics.

TLDR: As Ambassador, I can offer you 25% off all PRO and VIP tickets for both events with my discount code: ETHAN25

📅 July 7-9, 2026
📍 Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

🎟️
RAISE PRO: 1499€ instead of 1999€
RAISE VIP: 2624€ instead of 3499€
MACHINA PRO: 674€ instead of 899€
MACHINA VIP: 1199€ instead of 1599€
You can also get 25% off tickets to both events on the MACHINA website.

Incredible speakers building the best in AI, robotics, and infrastructure like Mark Cuban, Yann LeCun, Anton Osika from Lovable, Arthur Mensch from Mistral, Mark Hura from Oracle, Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs, Guillaume Princen from Anthropic, George Kurian from NetApp, Michele Catasta from Replit, Amanda McMaster from Boston Dynamics, and 200 more rockstars.

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@VivaTech 🎟️ 20% off VivaTech tickets with discount code ETHAN20

https://t.co/ITG0aEm9Av

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Next week, France's tech mega-event @VivaTech is back from June 17 to 20. As always, you can get 20% off all attendee, startup, and investor ticket types using my Ambassador discount code: ETHAN20.

Viva Technology is celebrating its 10th edition with over:
→ 180,000 attendees from 170+ nationalities
→ 4,000 exhibitors
→ 450 speakers
→ 14,000 startups

This year, don't miss talks from:
– Peter Steinberger from OpenClaw
– Yann LeCun from AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence
– Shantanu Narayen from Adobe
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India
– Joe Tsai from Alibaba
– Tim Berners-Lee
– Christophe Fouquet from ASML
and hundreds more.

VivaTech is the place to meet absolutely everyone you need to know in the most important tech ecosystem of Europe. This is where business gets done.

[Ξthan Pierse 🦙🤖 @EthanPierse]

25% off all PRO and VIP tickets for RAISE Summit and MACHINA Summit with code: ETHAN25

RAISE Summit: https://t.co/FbHbSpl6Vy
MACHINA Summit: https://t.co/Q4PUGJ2Tvq

[Ξthan Pierse 🦙🤖 @EthanPierse]

Everyone in AI will be in Paris this July for @RaiseSummit as well as @MACHINASUMMIT for physical AI / intelligent robotics.

TLDR: As Ambassador, I can offer you 25% off all PRO and VIP tickets for both events with my discount code: ETHAN25

📅 July 7-9, 2026
📍 Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

🎟️
RAISE PRO: 1499€ instead of 1999€
RAISE VIP: 2624€ instead of 3499€
MACHINA PRO: 674€ instead of 899€
MACHINA VIP: 1199€ instead of 1599€
You can also get 25% off tickets to both events on the MACHINA website.

Incredible speakers building the best in AI, robotics, and infrastructure like Mark Cuban, Yann LeCun, Anton Osika from Lovable, Arthur Mensch from Mistral, Mark Hura from Oracle, Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs, Guillaume Princen from Anthropic, George Kurian from NetApp, Michele Catasta from Replit, Amanda McMaster from Boston Dynamics, and 200 more rockstars.

[Ark Baltser @arkslife]

started as a prototype. now every pet gets their own iPhone.

[Ξthan Pierse 🦙🤖 @EthanPierse]

@ClaraChappaz Bravo and merci 🙌🏻🇫🇷 and félicitations à Team @Scaleway

[Paris Blockchain Week @ParisBlockWeek]

The Start In Block 2026 startup competition concluded last week, and it exceeded all expectations.

From over 1,000 applications across every corner of the digital asset ecosystem, 12 finalists made it to the stage at the Carrousel du Louvre. Two days of pitching in front of the leading investors, institutional leaders, and the most demanding jury in European digital assets. The energy in that room during the competition was unlike anything we have seen in previous editions.

Every finalist brought something real. But three companies stood above the rest:

🥇 First Place: @Manakoai, also the winner of the Bittensor track by @YumaGroup

🥈 Second Place: @TheRiskProtocol, also the winner of the DeFAI track by Spectrum Nodes

🥉 Third Place: @SundialProtocol, also the winner of the Institutional Adoption track by @Cardano_CF

A special recognition to the other finalists: @404gen_, Synth, @Bitcast_network, @Neuron_World, Deploi, @CoinbaxHQ, @MasumiNetwork, @zettacapital00, and @libertum_token, each of whom brought a standard that made this one of the strongest cohorts in Start In Block history.

None of this happens without the people who gave their time and expertise to make the competition credible. Thank you to our jury, Mykolas Majauskas - @Bybit_Official, Tomasz Kajetan Stańczak (@tkstanczak) -@Nethermind, Jessi Brooks - @RibbitCapital, Greg Schvey (@GSchvey) -@YumaGroup, Siam Kidd (@SiamKidd) - @dsvfund, Brett Sun (@sohkai) - @preludexyz, Matthew Felice Pace (@mfelicepace) - @SpectrumNodes, Pablo Campos - @Bit2Me, David Bchiri - @xrpl_commons, Samiz Bayan (@samizb) - @DraperDragon, Brian Wong (@brian_wong) - ASCII Ventures, and Ethan Pierce (@EthanPierse) - @BorderlessVC.

Thanks to our sponsors, @Cardano_CF, @SpectrumNodes, @YUMAGroup, @Bit2Me, and @AdevarLabs, for making the $10M+ prize pool possible.

To every founder who applied, built, and took the stage this week, we see you, and we look forward to seeing you at Signal Week 2027.