Documented path
Delubac was born in July 1995 in Paris, France. He studied management at ESSEC Business School and engineering at CentraleSupélec. During his studies, he co-founded his first startup, Planshot, a social network for sharing spontaneous plans. He co-founded Greenly in October 2019 with Alexis Normand and Matthieu Vegreville, building a B2B SaaS platform for carbon accounting. Delubac serves as CMO and was selected for the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
Born in July 1995 in Paris, France; studied management at ESSEC Business School and engineering at CentraleSupelec, and worked in the French government on digital communication strategies.
Co-founder and CMO of Greenly, a climate tech company monitoring over 600M tons of CO2 for 3,500+ customers across 30+ countries; Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe.
Where the conditions came from
Each is placed on a −1 to 3 scale from documented evidence, and the three are never added together. A combined total would rank Arnaud Delubac against other people. Held apart, they explain why this path ran differently from another one—which is the only comparison this project supports.
The marble itself
+1Tailwind
What capability, drive, or early skill is documented in the person rather than their surroundings?
Created major Twitter communities in France as a teenager. Co-founded first startup Planshot during studies. Above-average digital marketing and entrepreneurial ability but not prodigy-level.
Where it was dropped
+2Tailwind
What money, family standing, network, or permission was already in place before the work began?
Studied at ESSEC Business School and CentraleSupélec, two of France's most elite institutions. Worked in digital communication at the French Prime Minister's office (Matignon). Upper-middle-class Parisian background with access to elite education.
The shape of the track
+2Tailwind
What place, timing, institution, or peer group made the next step available?
ESSEC and CentraleSupélec provided elite professional network. Co-founded Greenly with Alexis Normand (ex-Withings) and brother-in-law, leveraging family connection. Climate tech wave timing. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe recognition.
A −1 is a documented headwind, not a missing value; a 0 means the sources record nothing notable either way. Annotation confidence: Medium. These are analyst readings of what the sources record, not measurements of merit, talent, or effort. The twenty-two scored dimensions remain available inside the deeper research detail.
What moved through the conditions
Silence in a biography is not evidence that perseverance was absent.
This is an unchosen opening or condition in the record, not an estimate of how much luck caused the outcome.
Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Frontier geography, Exceptional peer / cofounder.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Strongest observed levers: Complementary team, Structural wave / timing, Domain proximity.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.
Notable and widely recognized within the domain. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Arnaud Delubac's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
No current annotation distinguishes self-built, enabled, or earned origins for this lever.
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Arnaud Delubac's outcome attributable to any origin.
Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Not documented in reviewed sources. Delubac studied at ESSEC and CentraleSupélec, elite French institutions, suggesting a strong educational background, but family financial details are not documented.
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Delubac studied at two of France's most elite institutions, ESSEC Business School and CentraleSupélec, providing access to a strong professional network. He co-founded Greenly in October 2019 with Alexis Normand (ex-Withings) and Matthieu Vegreville, building a carbon accounting SaaS platform. The climate tech wave and increasing regulatory pressure on carbon reporting created structural demand. By September 2021 at age 26, Greenly raised €2.5M from Bpifrance and notable tech investors. The company later raised €21M Series A in 2022 and €48M Series B in 2024. Family background is not documented in reviewed sources.
advantage confidence: Medium · source count: 3 · audit: partial_source_verification · status: subagent_researched_beta