Nicolas Sadirac has a passion for learning sciences, a gift passed down by his mother. He is a pioneer of "active pedagogy" in France. Building on the finding that "learning by doing" is a source of satisfaction, leading in turn to notably improved student performance, in 1999 he launched Epitech, a new kind of school. Under his leadership, it established itself as the prime computer sciences school in France. After experimenting with multiple learning methods within Epitech, he successfully launched web@cademie in 2011, a youth-orientated program with no requirements of prior knowledge or diplomas.

For five years, Nicolas Sadirac ran and developed 42 and its offshoots with internationally acclaimed success. Along the line, he accumulated contacts and experience sharing, and came to realize that going even further was possible, and that the human element is the essence of digital transformation rather than technology by itself. Hence the need to focus on the human element, and in particular to encourage creativity in all shape or form, by establishing a benevolent environment.