Nicolas Sarganis-Bourdon, entrepreneurship student, self-employed worker: marketing and innovation for young companies
Photo credit: Jimmy Hamelin (Instagram @jimmy.hamelin)
- Your motto : When you dream, I dream with you.
- Who do you idolize: Nicolas Duvernois
- How do you stand out: My thirst to try everything to become more versatile.
- Red pill or blue pill? : Red! Even though at the same time I dream and guide my thoughts towards an ideal future, I like to stay the course and be responsive to reality.
- Your Instagram account: @nicsarganis
What makes the success of a rising star is its ability to get up fall after fall.
My two post-baccalaureate years plunged me into the beginning of an adventure dotted with ups, downs and passion. These thrills have defined who I am and where I am headed. Thank you to Grenier for this opportunity to give you a testimony of the beginning of your career:
In March 2020, I was the marketing coordinator of a pioneering start-up in the entertainment industry, flight attendant and frequent weekend traveler. My friends called me the jetset. In a partially sunny park, third wave coffee in hand, I tell my anecdotes of croissants in Paris, turbulent flights, the launch of our next entertainment project. Summer is coming: more projects in sight? You know the rest. A week later, the vacation airline becomes an emergency repatriation ally, entertainment plans are canceled. I finally received two layoff letters. We’re siled and my dreams are on hold, but we’re all together. This collective solidarity prevented me from complaining: I had a place to stay, a banana bread in the oven and a new passion for running. The star is not extinct, but is certainly not rising. Dreaming becomes an effort because reality takes up all the space.
A letter lands in my mailbox in the middle of the night: a notice of refusal to the master’s degree followed by an invitation to do a DESS in entrepreneurship at HEC Montreal. A mixture of emotions. Another dream to put on hold, but a new opportunity. Faced with the uncertainty, I decided to go for it. Once the offer was accepted, I virtually networked to create three business prototypes in one term as part of my studies: the passion was born! I never thought in my life to go into business with people I had never met.
Today, I am giving myself another chance for the master’s degree in September 2021 and I am participating in the international competition Social Business Creation. With the loss of my jobs, I accepted one mandate at a time to finally go on my own, without realizing it. With a formula “for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneur”, I offered my services in marketing strategy and business creation, to then be recruited as a communications manager. With a view to continuously learning, I carried out several voluntary mandates to allow enthusiasts with fewer resources to take off and become, themselves, rising stars.
Be proud to show who you are and to use each micro-life experience to forge the future, because we have so much to learn together.
Have a good start to your career!
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Le Grenier aux nouvelles would like to present the rockstars of the industry. Whether in an agency, on the client side, in production or other, we want to put them forward! These young or old, freshly landed in the working world of the comm. Whether you are in the consulting service, in creation, in production or other, in short, whether you are the self-proclaimed rockstar of your company or not, we want to see you the hoe in our pages! The only condition for submitting your profile or submitting the profile of a golden colleague? Have a maximum of 3 years of work experience. Show us your rising stars at [email protected].
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