Xavier Niel Net Worth, Age, Family & Biography $6.3 B Real Time Net Worth #277 in the world today

Avan Parvadiya — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:04:29 +0000

About Xavier Niel

Xavier Niel is a French billionaire who works in the technology and telecommunications industries. He is most popular as a pioneer and larger investor of the French Network access supplier and versatile administrator of Iliad exchanging under the Free brand (France’s second-biggest ISP, and third portable administrator). Xavier is additionally co-proprietor of the paper Le Monde, co-proprietor of the freedoms of the melody “My Way” and proprietor of Monaco Telecom, Salt Portable SA and Eir. He also serves on the boards of KKR and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, where he is chairman and chief strategy officer for the Iliad.

Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange and Xavier Niel, CEO Iliad Free.

Xavier Niel Family

Niel was born on August 25, 1967, into a family that was middle class. His mother is an accountant, and his father works as a lawyer for a pharmaceutical laboratory. He attended the Catholic private high school Saint-Michel-de-Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.

Xavier Niel Career

Niel began right on time by creating telecom and information benefits and set out very early in life on an enterprising vocation not long after his dad gave him a Sinclair ZX81 PC as a Christmas present when he was 15.

He started and sold his first business, a French service company known as Minitel, in 1987 at the age of 19, after dropping out of school. Sex-oriented chat services were offered by this Minitel website. Niel diverted the money to establish its commercial services by purchasing press licences in order to become a service editor. He became a millionaire in euros at the age of 24 thanks to this.

Xavier Niel (L), Founder of the Iliad Group, and Jacques-Antoine Granjon (R), French entrepreneur and CEO of Vente-privee.com, attend the “Angell” Launch Party at the Bridge on November 19, 2019 in Paris, France.