Ludovic Bostral

Ludovic Bostral is a Strategic Technology Consultant at his eponymous firm, Bostral, where he directly advises emerging startups on over-the-top video strategy, platform architecture, business development, and technical recruitment. Previously, he co-founded Afrostream, a subscription video-on-demand service that successfully participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2015 accelerator cohort. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, Bostral served as an R&D Manager at M6 Web, where he led the technical creation of M6 Replay, which quickly became a prominent French catch-up television service. He also contributed to scaling the technical infrastructure for various audio streaming platforms, and he currently authors the Streaming Radar industry newsletter alongside hosting related podcast content discussing The West Wing. His career primarily focuses on engineering scalable streaming video and audio platforms, providing comprehensive technical strategy, and guiding operational growth for early-stage media technology companies.