Chahram Becharat

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveInformation War Before Every Battle Operating PrincipleOpacity Through Entity Renaming Strategic PatternSell the Buyer His Own Money Strategic PatternBrand Prestige as Holding Company Currency Signature MoveSell at the Ceiling, Buy at the Crash Cornerstone MoveStack the Cascade, Keep 51% at Every Floor Cornerstone MoveBuy the Wreckage, Extract the Jewels Cornerstone MoveTurn Every Ally Into a Stepping Stone Signature MovePersonal Enrichment Through Internal Transfers Risk DoctrineCrash as Invitation, Not Crisis Signature MoveVictory Without Mercy, Then Make Them Pay Capital StrategyGovernment Subsidies as Launch Fuel Relationship LeverageGratitude Is a Disease of Dogs Competitive AdvantageProducer-to-Consumer Margin Capture Capital StrategyStock Options as Majority Shareholder Self-Enrichment Identity & CultureGrandmother's Cult of Superiority Signature MoveSilence the Dissent, Control the Narrative Decision FrameworkCreditor Coercion by Liquidation Threat Signature MoveWorld's Top Hair Stylist for a Virtual Avatar Signature MoveEx-Gurkhas Guarding a Website Company Competitive AdvantageMedia Buzz as Substitute for Product Readiness Decision FrameworkInsider Empathy as Restructuring Poison Identity & CultureAdversity Loyalty Mirage Cornerstone MovePrestige Names as Fundraising Stampede Risk DoctrineBurn Rate Denial Until the Doctor Arrives Cornerstone MoveCut Cruel But Never Cruel Enough Cornerstone MoveBuild Utopia in One Apollo Mission Capital StrategyValuation Without Revenue is Pure Narrative Cornerstone MoveZero-Valuation Last-Chance Triage Signature MoveThirty Employees Memorizing a Philosophy Book With Zero Customers Signature MovePrivate Jets as Money-Raising Machines Relationship LeverageInvestor Prestige ≠ Investor Governance Signature MoveCall Centre in London's Most Expensive Postcode

Primary Evidence

"To carry out this strategy, at the very moment when François Pinault came to trample his garden, he created Europ@ web, a holding company, also of Dutch law, responsible for overseeing most of the group's European internet activities, which he entrusted to Chahram Becharat, thirty-two years old, a precision intellectual mechanic trained at Polytechnique and Harvard, recruited a little earlier. He surrounded himself with about fifty young wolves who left their consulting firms and investment banks without looking back, trading their comfortable salaries for promises of capital gains. With a fund of 500 million euros (3.28 billion francs), Europ@ web will acquire about fifty "dotcoms". The methods are those that financial power allows in the face of excited and naive kids."

Source:l'Ange Exterminateur

"Also in the room was Myron Ullman, Amault’s second in com- mand, and another close associate, the Iranian-born Chahram Becharat."

Source:Boo Hoo - A Dot-Com Story From Concept to Catastrophe

Appears In Volumes

l'Ange Exterminateur Boo Hoo - A Dot-Com Story From Concept to Catastrophe