Roxanne Varza

Roxanne Varza: Station F, S/AI and European Founders

Roxanne Varza, director of Station F, describes the Paris campus (1,000 startups, 30 programs, housing and a coming hotel) and the new S/AI program built with 16 major AI players, where companies must be recommended by one of eight investor partners and target $1M revenue within six months. She argues founders still need basic coding literacy and automation skills, says speed and relationships now differentiate teams more than product, and predicts new populations like researchers entering entrepreneurship after Mistral's rise. She also shares early war stories — including a flooded auditorium days before launch — and previews Station F's international expansion and momentum in the French ecosystem.

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