Digital Growth & Investment

For the world's most
compelling voices.

We invest in, build, and run the digital businesses behind them.

Headline Partnership
ATFrenchies
Two guys from Paris, lost in the US. Billions of views, 6 million followers, a Penguin Random House book, and the biggest French club in the world.
Alex Durand and Tom Carles of ATFrenchies in black tie

From Instagram to the New York Times… and The Élysée.

Alex Durand and Tom Carles started with a phone and zero followers. Since then: an audience with President Macron, French with Prime Minister Trudeau in Paris, and three invitations to the White House Correspondents' Dinner in three years. They were official social media ambassadors for the World Cup and the French national team, and NBCUniversal brought them on in the same role for the Olympics in Paris and Milan. Penguin Random House is publishing their debut, Pardon Our French.

We are the business arm behind Alex and Tom. We build, operate, and grow every ATFrenchies venture, from the biggest French club in the world to a private evening at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

6M+
Followers
Billions
of Views
60+
Countries in the Club
White House Correspondents Dinner
Collaborations with Heads of State
ATFrenchies with President Emmanuel Macron
An audience with le Président.
Emmanuel Macron · Paris
ATFrenchies with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
French with the Prime Minister.
Justin Trudeau · Paris
ATFrenchies at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
Three invitations, three years running.
Correspondents' Dinner · Washington
Global Press
The New York Times L'Équipe France Inter TF1 Garden & Gun Daily Mail
"We're All Living the Olympics Through Creators" The New York Times

ATFrenchies credentials: the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the Élysée, the Olympics, Penguin Random House, PSG, and NBCUniversal.

Thank you, Alex and Tom, for making our beautiful French language shine with such humor and energy!
Emmanuel Macron · President of France, for 'Pardon Our French'
The Ventures
Three businesses. One story.
Each one built from zero with Alex and Tom. Each one run by our team today.
01
Community  ·  Est. 2022

The French Club

The biggest French club in the world.

Live masterclasses with Alex, Tom, and a team of native instructors. An AI conversation partner trained on their exact method. A community of Francophiles across more than 60 countries. The Club went from zero to a 7 figure business in under 12 months and is still growing.

Enter the Club
Members in 60+ countrieslive, every week
French Club members gathered at sunset
02
Education  ·  Est. 2025

The Creator Code

Not a course. A 90 day build.

For 90 days, professionals work with Alex, Tom, and guest mentors from the Élysée, Meta, and Wasserman. The AI tools are trained on 10,000+ viral Reels, and members finish with a Digital Marketing Specialist credential backed by an EAHEA accredited curriculum. Members do not leave with notes. They leave with a business.

Enter the Code
The system that built 6M followerstaught by the two who did it
Alex Durand and Tom Carles of ATFrenchies in black tie
03
Publishing  ·  Penguin Random House

Pardon Our French

The book launch, and the night built around it.

Penguin Random House publishes Alex and Tom's debut, and we run the launch behind it. Its headline event is A Paris Affair on September 28, 2026, a private France × America gathering at the Hôtel de Talleyrand, the house America ran the Marshall Plan from, now part of the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Invitation only. Guests are chosen, not counted.

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Hôtel de TalleyrandU.S. Embassy, Paris
Alex and Tom at the Hôtel de Talleyrand in Paris
Past Projects
Before this chapter.
Selected work with authors, clinicians, and creators. Names withheld due to privacy.
A bestselling author and licensed clinician
Multi-million audience

Program design and offer architecture for a guided personal development program, built from an existing body of published work.

A bestselling author in parenting
Six figure audience

Community and membership design built around simple daily routines and live coaching, with the operating structure to run it.

A creator and digital marketing voice
Six figure audience

Curriculum, offer design, and launch structure for a creator education academy teaching audience growth and brand partnerships.

Client identities withheld. We name a partner only with their written consent.
Who We Are
Global 8 Group builds businesses for the world's most compelling voices. We took The French Club from zero to 7 figures in under 12 months, and today we run every venture that carries the ATFrenchies name. We invest, we build, and we grow with our partners.
Kai Shapiro, Founding Partner at Global 8 Group
Kai Shapiro
Founding Partner
Dima Shevchuk, Founding Partner at Global 8 Group
Dima Shevchuk
Founding Partner
Zhanna Gurnevych, Chief Project Officer at Global 8 Group
Zhanna Gurnevych
Chief Project Officer
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Inquiries
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