Paris to New York or San Francisco: What Does It Take to Expand into the US?

Two French founders who built US businesses compare routes. Anh-Tho Chuong co-founded Lago, the monetisation platform behind pricing at PayPal, Groq, CoreWeave and Mistral AI; it went through Y Combinator, has raised $22M with a Series A led by New York's FirstMark, and she runs it from San Francisco. Jo Widawski co-founded Maze, the product research platform used by more than 60,000 teams including Atlassian, Cisco and Revolut; Maze raised a $40M Series B led by Felicis and Jo splits his time between Paris and New York. YC or not, New York or San Francisco: they cover US customers, hiring, raising from US investors and running teams on two continents. Moderated by Hexa co-founder Amaury Sepulchre. Tuesday 1 December, 19:00 to 21:00, Paris; address on registration. Free, approval-gated. Why go: two different US playbooks from founders who ran them. Best for founders planning a US move in the next year or two.