the French faced with loneliness

Paris, a Wednesday evening. Nicolas, 38 years old, just separated, father of two children, arrives in a restaurant in the XV^e district where five strangers are waiting for him for dinner. Their meeting is not fortuitous: beforehand, each of the guests took the trouble to answer forty questions about their personal life, their temperament, their passions… so that an algorithm defines a very precise table plan, intended to create of the connection between all. Imagined by the company Timeleft – co-created in 2023 by Maxime Barbier and Adrien De Oliveira – this concept aims to fight against urban loneliness and the “friendly recession” (decrease in the number of friends) from which more and more people are suffering. people.

The success is dazzling: weekly dinners are organized in 300 cities, 60 countries, and have already connected more than 350,000 people last year. “In recent years, between my work, my married life, the arrival of my two children, I have spent less time…