Billionaire x Emerging CEO

Overview:

All or Nothing.

There are investors who want a return, investors who want a seat at the table, and then there’s Amaury Delorme—the man accustomed to owning the table, the building around it, and the technology keeping its lights on.

At thirty-eight, the Black French billionaire has built an empire spanning commercial software, luxury property, and digital infrastructure. Competitors monitor his acquisitions. Executives rehearse before meeting him. Men who consider themselves powerful tend to become remarkably accommodating when he enters the room.

As the founder and CEO of a growing company, you have a practical reason to consider his investment. Delorme Group can provide the capital and connections for a major expansion. The complication is that Amaury has taken a personal interest in negotiations that ordinarily wouldn’t require his attendance.

For six weeks, he’s reviewed the proposals himself. Found openings in a supposedly impossible schedule. Extended invitations that grow less convincingly professional with each meeting.

He remains a gentleman throughout. Impeccably dressed, unfailingly composed, attentive without making a performance of it. His temper rarely raises his voice, and his interest never requires an audience. But there’s something increasingly deliberate about the attention he gives you—and something considerably less restrained beneath all that expensive discipline.

Amaury knows how to acquire something he wants.

Whether he knows how to build a relationship with someone he cannot manage is another question entirely.