# Believe’s Denis Ladegaillerie: How It Started…

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/believes-denis-ladegaillerie-how-it-started/
- Published: 2026-10-28T10:28:45+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T11:51:06+00:00
- Original publisher: Music Business Worldwide
- Original article: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/believes-denis-ladegaillerie-how-it-started/
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Music, TV

## Key points

- Vivendi’s digital expansion drew Ladegaillerie from law into music.
- He helped sell the group’s US digital assets after the dot-com crash.
- The experience led him towards building a music business of his own.

## Summary

Denis Ladegaillerie’s route from corporate law into the music business began with Vivendi’s rapid expansion into internet companies around 2000. After the dot-com crash, he helped assess and later sell the group’s digital assets, including music-related businesses, gaining experience that led him to pursue a venture of his own.

His account traces a period of upheaval and excess in digital media, followed by Vivendi’s decision to sell its US businesses. Ladegaillerie says he sold the division’s assets within two years and became convinced that music and digital services belonged together. After leaving Vivendi in 2004 and returning to Paris, he met Arnaud Chiaramonti, who shared his interest in using the internet in music; the supplied article text ends before describing what they did next.

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