Walk into the room anymore. Laura did bring the coffee. [laughter] would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. Alright. David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David at what point did you realize that you had some skills that were maybe going to let you rise up . My grandmother taught me how to read. I grew up learning to read and read bible verses. The grace for me is that i did not spend a single day in a segregated school, so i did not have one moment of being conditioned to believe that i was less than anybody. When i walked into my first kindergarten class, first time i had seen little, white children that my grandmother did not work for, and everybody was doing their
Chairman and ceo of loreal. Thank you. Jean paul pleasure. Francine innovation, your share price has grown, was it exciting . Jean paul very exciting. I started has ceo 10 years ago. In 20082009, but globally as this has been good. We have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share, very exciting. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. I think this industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years than the previous 30 years come at so an amazing time. Francine is it the way you sell or the weight people look at makeup . Jean paul it is the relationships between brands and consumers. Digital has completely transformed the relationship between the two. Before that, brands were talking to consumers, pushing to them information or whatever am a but now the consumer has taken power. The consumer decides how he wants to see the brands, what he
Today, we meet jean paul agon, chairman and ceo of loreal. Thank you so much. Jean paul pleasure. Francine innovation, your share price has grown, was it exciting times . Jean paul very exciting. I started has ceo 10 years ago. It has been 10 years very exciting. Of course we had crisis in 20082009, but globally as this very good. S has been we have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share everywhere, very, china and exciting. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. As i tell my teams think this , i think this industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years previous 30 years, so it is an amazing time, extremely exciting. Francine is it the way you sell or the way people look at makeup . Jean paul it is the relationships between brands and consumers. In fact, digital has completely transformed the relationship between the two. Before t
Today on leaders with lacqua, we meet jean paul agon, chairman and ceo of loreal. Thank you so much. Jean paul pleasure. Francine what happened to loreal in the last 10 years . Innovation . Your share price has grown. Was it exciting times . Jean paul very exciting. I started has ceo 10 years ago. It has been 10 years very exciting. Of course we had crisis in 20082009, but globally the business has been very good. We have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share everywhere, china, so very exciting, fantastic. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. As i tell my teams, i think this, i industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years than in the previous 30 years, so it is an amazing time, extremely exciting. Francine is this the way you sell or the way people look at makeup . Jean paul no, in fact it is the relationships between brands
Jean paul pleasure. Francine what happened to loreal in the last 10 years . Innovation . Your share price has grown. Was it exciting times . Jean paul very exciting. I started as ceo 10 years ago. It has been 10 years very exciting. Of course we had crisis in 2008 and 2009, but globally the business has been very good. We have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share everywhere, in europe, usa, china, so very exciting, fantastic. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. As i tell my teams, i think this, i industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years than in the previous 30 years, so it is an amazing time, extremely exciting. Francine is this the way you sell or the way people look at makeup . Jean paul no, in fact it is the relationships between brands and consumers. In fact, digital has completely transformed the relationship betwe