Anthony Bourbon is one of the most exciting and motivating people in the French business world right now. He was born on May 22, 1988, in Bordeaux, France. He has worked hard to become a successful entrepreneur, investor, television personality, and author. His story is a classic rags-to-riches story that many people who want to start their own businesses can relate to. It stresses hard work, ambition, and meritocracy over privilege.
The Beginning of Life and Problems
Anthony Bourbon came from a middle-class family that lived in the suburbs of Bordeaux. His childhood was hard, and he left home at a young age because of problems with his family. At 16, he was on the streets, homeless, and having trouble with money. He worked a lot of odd jobs while he was going to school to make ends meet. Even though he had to deal with these problems, he kept going and got a degree in private law and then a master’s degree in real estate sciences from the University of Bordeaux (and Paris 10 for advanced studies).
This hard time in the beginning changed the way he saw the world. He has talked a lot about how being poor made him hungry, and then how working long hours made him hungry, which later affected his business ideas.
Career Breakthrough: Starting Feed.
Bourbon became an entrepreneur after working as a lawyer in a real estate group. He started Feed, a FoodTech company that focuses on practical, balanced nutrition, when he was 29 years old in 2017. The company later changed its name to O.K.R. The brand makes full meal bars, snacks, drinks, and powders that are meant to be healthy and easy for busy people to eat without sacrificing taste or quality.
He came up with the idea because he was unhappy with the taste, ingredients, and ethics of other meal replacement products. Feed. quickly became popular, raising a lot of money (around 30–40 million euros in its first few years), building a team of about 30 people, selling millions of meals, and adding dozens of products to its line, each with a different focus, such as energy or health.
This success made Bourbon a well-known name in the French startup scene and showed that new ideas that meet people’s everyday needs can spread quickly.
Increasing Power: Blast.Club and Investing
Bourbon started Blast.Club in September 2022. It’s a private investment club where members can invest in early-stage startups with him, starting with just 1,000€ per project. The platform has thousands of members and hundreds of millions of dollars in committed investments. Its goal is to make it easier for everyone to invest in high-potential businesses, without the usual barriers like elite networks or high minimums.
Bourbon has invested in more than 100 startups as a business angel. He uses his experience to find opportunities and risks in many different industries. He sees Blast.Club as a way to promote meritocracy by letting regular people take part in the “startups of tomorrow.”
People have praised the club for being easy to get to, but some have criticized its structure and fees in the media.
TV and Being Seen in Public
Starting in 2022 and continuing through several seasons, Bourbon became well-known across the country as a jury member (investor shark) on the popular M6 show “Qui veut être mon associé?” (“Who Wants to Be My Partner?”). His direct, passionate style, which often puts more emphasis on real-world grit than polished pitches, has made him stand out. The publicity has made him more powerful and made him a role model for French business owners.
He has a strong presence on social media, especially Instagram (@anthonybourbon1), where he shares tips on business, investing, and mindset with hundreds of thousands of people.
“Forcez votre destin” is the author.
Bourbon’s book Forcez votre destin – Résilience, ambition, passion: toutes les clés pour réussir (Force Your Destiny – Resilience, Ambition, Passion: All the Keys to Success) came out in 2022 from Michel Lafon Publishing. The book gives useful advice on how to start a business, get over failure, and take advantage of opportunities, based on the author’s own experiences, from living on the streets to building multimillion-euro businesses. It shows how he believes that determination, not background or connections, is what leads to success.
What they left behind and what they did
Anthony Bourbon is now in his mid-30s and has a fortune of tens to hundreds of millions of euros, thanks to Feed., investments, and Blast.Club. He has been in the news, including on the cover of Forbes France as one of the youngest successful businesspeople. He still pushes for changing traditional systems in favor of merit and action.
His journey from being homeless to becoming a powerful investor and TV personality is strong proof that “forcing one’s destiny” is possible. In interviews, he talks about wanting a “revolution” in how people can get jobs and how he helps others by mentoring them and investing in them.
Anthony Bourbon is still involved in the ecosystem, combining daring business with a goal of making success more accessible to everyone. His story still inspires a new generation in France and beyond.
