for Stéphane Nomis, “like in judo, you fall and you get up”

“In judo, you fall and you get up. It’s not far from the business.” Stéphane Nomis was a member of the French team for nine years, from 1990 to 1999. He is one of the very few former top athletes to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit at these heights: Ippon Technologies, which has achieved more than 70 million euros in turnover in 2021, employs 700 people worldwide and expects 230 recruitments this year.

“From 16 to 28 years oldsays the leader, judo has been my whole life but I also had a taste for computers. At the end of my career, the Federation funded me for a three-month training course in information systems. I was employed for a year before understanding that I could do for myself what I was doing for others.

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Back then, in the early 2000s, it was still “old world” time: “I had to see twenty-one banks to get a loan of 8000 euroshe continues. Judoka and IT entrepreneur…