Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (born April 17, 1977, in Orléans) is a French entrepreneur and business angel, co-creator and former president of the online sales site PriceMinister (which became Rakuten France in 2018).

Biography
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet was born on April 17, 1977, in Orléans, to François Kosciusko-Morizet (1940–2015), bridge and road engineer, politician and mayor of Sèvres, and Bénédicte Treuille (1945–2015), physics professor at the IUT of Orsay. He is the younger brother of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (1973), politician, MP and minister; he is also the nephew of Jacques-Antoine Kosciusko-Morizet (1943), entrepreneur and director at Crédit Lyonnais; he is also the grandson of Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet (1913–1994), resistance fighter, university professor, diplomat (French ambassador to the United States from 1972 to 1977) and politician (mayor of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche from 1977 to 1994); he is finally the great-grandson of André Morizet (1876–1942), politician (one of the founding members of the French Communist Party), senator (of the Seine from 1927 to 1942), general advisor (of the same department) and mayor (of Boulogne-Billancourt from 1919 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1942).

His paternal family has Polish Jewish origins, whose ancestor, Abraham Salomon Kościuszko (1821–1917), arrived in France under Louis-Philippe. His maternal family comes from the Counts Treuille, of papal nobility, industrialists from Châtellerault.

Career
In 1998, while a student at HEC Paris, he launched his first company, Visualis SA.

Graduated from HEC in 1999, he became a manager in the marketing and finance department of Capital One. In August 2000, he created PriceMinister.com with Pierre Krings and the site was launched in January 2001.

In 2007, while professor of business creation at HEC entrepreneurs, he proposed the idea of PeopleDoc to his student Jonathan Benhamou. He is the first investor and board member.

In 2008, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet co-founded the investment company Kernel Investissements with Pierre Krings. Kernel investments has invested in companies such as Doctolib, Yellow Korner, LaBonneBox, Restoflash, Comet Meetings, Blade.

In June 2010, PriceMinister.com was bought by the Japanese Rakuten; Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet remains the CEO of the company and then the managing director Europe of the entire Rakuten Group until May 2014.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is co-founder and chairman of the strategic committee of the Internet entrepreneurs investment fund ISAI.

In 2015, he was one of the guests of the West Web Festival organized each year in Carhaix-Plouguer during the Vieilles Charrues Festival.

Awards

 * Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation
 * Ordre national du Mérite