If you too tried to open a bank account for your new box before 2016, you are not without knowing the problem that QONTO is helping you to solve. In this episode of Generation Do It Yourself, I talk to a banker: Alex, himself the son of a banker, Baudoin (#MMJC and if #TMTC, we understand each other). Alexandre Prot and his enormous first-in-class baggage (HEC, Goldmans Sachs, McKinsey, INSEAD) landed at CosaVostra with his beautiful “Qonto” flocked promotional T-shirt. Not quite the look of the bank boss like BNP or Crédit Agricole. He explained to me that he couldn't see how he could last an hour behind his microphone. We did almost two. We talked about what it was like in one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world, what we learn there and the importance of the network. We talked about connected electronic cigarettes, logical, because with his long-time partner Steve Anavi, they created cigarettes to stop smoking. All this between experiences in the consulting world company and the creation of a bank for entrepreneurs. Go figure. We talked about the eyes of others, the difficulty in selling a product (Smokio) that tobacconists don't want and neither do pharmacies, and everything they learned by selling their first box. We obviously talked about Qonto, which makes life easier for entrepreneurs and which has raised 32 million euros, in particular from the controversial Peter Thiel, the godfather of FinTechs in the United States. We talked about acceleration, or how to go from 30 to 120 employees, organization and a little sport. In short, we talked about the life of a guy who broke up very young, who left the right path of the first in the class and who is having fun in an extraordinary adventure.