Mahjoubi was very technological as a child and even won an Young Inventors competition organized by children's science magazine, Science et Vie Junior[7] He was employed by internet provider, Club Internet, when he was 16 and the company eventually training him to be a network technician.[8] He was also employed as a trade union representative for the union, CFDT.[9]
Mahjoubi founded Equanum along with Guilhem Chéron and Marc-David Choukroun in 2010, a company which develops and gives farmers and artisans a dedicated Internet platform to sell their product. Mahjoubi left the company in 2012 to work on the Hollande campaign.[12]
Mahjoubi was Deputy General Manager for BETC Digital from 2013 to 2016.[13] In September 2016, he founded the "French Bureau", a start-up company that aims to accompany major groups in their innovation process.[14]
Political career
Early political activities
Mahjoubi joined the Socialist Party when he was 18.[15] In 2006, he helped create the "Segosphere" movement to assist 2007 Presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal.[16] He supported Francois Hollande's campaign for the 2012 presidential elections and even worked on it, assisting with the digital aspect.[16]
Mahjoubi was nominated by PresidentHollande as Chairman of the Conseil national du numérique (French Digital Council) in 2016, succeeding Benoît Thieulin. The priority projects of the council under his guidance were the digital transformation of Small and medium-sized enterprises and universities.[17]
La République En Marche! career
In 2017, he resigned from the council and joined En Marche! serving as digital manager of Macron's campaign team.[18][19] On 6 April 2017, Mahjoubi was selected as candidate for the 16th constituency of Paris for the legislative elections, running under La République en marche! label.[20][21] He ran against Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, who had represented the district as lawmaker for 20 straight years.[22] Mahjoubi later won the seat with 51% of the vote in the second round.[4]
Mahjoubi announced on 6 March 2019 his candidacy as LREM candidate for the 2020 Paris municipal election. To be able to devote himself to this candidacy, he left the government on 27 March and thus reinstated his seat in the National Assembly.[25] He subsequently served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[26] He did not compete in the 2022 legislative election.
Political positions
At a parliamentary hearing in 2020, Mahjoubi criticized the head of Amazon's France unit that the latter was "taking the piss" after telling a parliamentary committee that the company paid the French state 420 million euros ($508 million) in 2019 and had sales of 5.7 billion euros.[27]
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