Benjamin Bejbaum

Benjamin Bejbaum is a French entrepreneur and computer programmer, who is particularly known for being co-founder of Dailymotion video-sharing site with Olivier Poitrey. He was the CEO of the company. During that time, he was responsible for the strategy of the start-up.

Life and education

Bejbaum was born into a Jewish immigrant family on November 20, 1976, in Paris. His father was from Poland and his mother from Tunisia. He attended Gérard de Nerval High School, Luzarches. He then enrolled at the university in Villetaneuse to study applied mathematics and information sciences.

DailyMotion

In March 2005, Bejbaum founded Dailymotion, along with Olivier Poitrey. A year later, the video site got $9.5 million from Atlas Ventures and Partech International a year later. After hiring Zaleski from QXL as executive chairman, he got $34 million led by Adventure Partners and AGF Private Equity in August 2007.
In December 2008, Benjamin Bejbaum left the day-to-day operations at the company while Mark Zalesky took his position. After that, he continued on the board of the start-up.