FROM THE WEB: happn CEO Didier Rappaport Talks Taking On ‘Old’ Dating Businesses

Didier Rappaport, the founder of Dailymotion and French dating app Happn, was recently interviewed by European CEO.

Rappaport is the founder and CEO of Happn, which has been performing impressively, expanding further into Europe and the US – now live in 9 major cities, with over 1.4m users.

The company has 30 employees, and in December 2014 they received $8m in funding to expand the app internationally.

Rappaport says they secured this investment by showing the traction the app had generated in a relatively short time.

As CEO of Dailymotion he built the company to be valued at €120m, with over 128m monthly unique visitors.

Watch the interview below: