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{{Infobox person
| name         = Manu Cornet
| birth_name   = Emmanuel Cornet
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1981|01|21}}
| birth_place  = [[Paris]], France
| employer   = [[Google]]<br>[[Twitter]]
| years_active = Late 2000s–present
| education   = [[École alsacienne]]<br>[[Lycée Saint-Louis]]
| alma_mater   = [[École normale supérieure (Paris)|École normale supérieure]]
| website      = {{Official URL}}
| nationality  = French
}}

[[File:2012.11.26 mobile relationship.png|thumb|"Mobile Relationship" by Manu Cornet]]
[[File:2011.11.15 building software.png|thumb|"Life of a software engineer" by Manu Cornet]]

'''Emmanuel Cornet''' (born 21 January 1981) is a French software engineer, freelance cartoonist, writer and musician<ref name=crab/><ref name=g1/><ref name=g2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a1290/distance-tempsjamendo.com|website=jamendo.com|title=Distance temps Album published under a Creative Commons license|first=Manu|last=Cornet|year=2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ma.nu/ |first=Manu|last=Cornet|year=2020|title=Profile |access-date=2020-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517041501/https://ma.nu/ |archive-date=2020-05-17|website=ma.nu }}</ref>  who worked at [[Google]] and [[Twitter]]<ref name=gmail>{{cite web|website=gmailblog.blogspot.com|url=http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/faces-of-gmail-manu-cornet.html|title=Faces of Gmail: Manu Cornet|year=2011|first=Kathleen|last= Chen}}</ref> from 2007 until 2021.

==Education==
Born in Paris, Cornet was educated at the [[École alsacienne]] and the [[Lycée Saint-Louis]] before studying [[Informatics]], Physics and Maths at the [[Ecole normale superieure|École normale supérieure]].<ref name=linkedin>{{LinkedIn user}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/index-dsp.html.fr|website=eleves.ens.fr|title= Liste des élèves - classés par discipline|language=fr|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225082755/https://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/index-dsp.html.fr|archivedate=2007-02-25|author=Anon|year=2004}}</ref>

==Career==
Cornet worked at [[Google]]<ref name=gmail/> from 2007 until 2021. He joined [[Twitter]] in 2021, but said he had been laid off in 2022 shortly after the [[acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-twitter-software-engineer-who-created-cartoons-poking-fun-at-his-own-company-says-he-was-fired-because-hes-a-troublemaker/ar-AA13GQNm | title=A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker' | date=3 November 2022 | first=Sam | last=Tabahriti | website=msn.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter | date=1 November 2022 | title=Bye Twitter | website=ma.nu | first=Manu|last= Cornet}}</ref>

===Cartoonist===
Cornet is known for his cartoons,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bonkersworld.net|website=bonkersworld.net|title= Bonkers World|first=Manu|last=Cornet|year=2015}}</ref> some of which were published in ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/technology/microsoft-revamps-structure-and-management.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|title=Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way|first=Nick|last=Whigfield|year=2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ma.nu/publications/images/2013.07.12_new_york_times_org_charts_small.png|title=First page of the New York Times Business Section on July 12th, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116031919/https://ma.nu/publications/images/2013.07.12_new_york_times_org_charts_small.png|archivedate=2017-11-16}}</ref> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/yahoo-fuehrt-forced-rankings-ein-microsoft-schafft-sie-ab-fotostrecke-103736-3.html|website=spiegel.de|title=Yahoo führt Forced Rankings ein, Microsoft schafft sie ab|language=de}}</ref> [[Mashable]], [[Daring Fireball]] and [[Business Insider]].<ref name=bi>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/cartoon-drawing-troublemaker-twitter-engineer-manu-says-hes-been-fired-2022-11|website=businessinsider.com|first=Sam|last= Tabahriti |year=2022 |title=A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker'}}</ref>

His "Organizational Charts" cartoon was quoted by [[Satya Nadella]] on the first page of his book, ''[[Hit Refresh]],'' as one of the motivations making him want to change the [[organizational culture]] at [[Microsoft]].<ref name=hitrefresh>{{cite book|first=Satya|last=Nadella|year=2017|title=Hit Refresh|isbn=9780062652508|publisher=	HarperCollins}}</ref>

===Publications===
Cornet wrote ''The Crab and the Lamb'',<ref name=crab/> edited by [[:fr:Geneviève Jurgensen|Geneviève Jurgensen]] and translated into English by [[Adriana Hunter]]. It is the first-person account of Cornet's experience with cancer diagnosis and treatment. His second book, ''Goomics'', was published in 2018<ref name=g1/><ref name=g2/> and is about his experiences working for [[Google]]. His publications include:

* ''Goomics, volume 1<ref name=g1>{{cite book |title= Goomics, vol. 1 |date= 2018 |isbn= 978-0-98852384-5 |last1= Cornet |first1= Manu |publisher= Manu Cornet |oclc=1061852186}}</ref> & 2<ref name=g2>{{cite book |title= Goomics, vol. 2 |date= 2021 |isbn= 978-1-95262900-6 |last1= Cornet |first1= Manu }}</ref>''
* ''Graphic Nobel, volume 1''<ref name=novel1>{{cite book |title= Graphic Nobel: Nobel prizes in physics explained with cartoons 1901 - 1910|date= 2019 |isbn= 978-0-98852386-9 |last1= Cornet |first1= Manu |publisher= Manu Cornet |oclc=1255245369}}</ref> & 2<ref name=novel2>{{cite book |title= Graphic Nobel: Nobel prizes in physics explained with cartoons 1911 - 1920|date= 2023 |isbn=978-1-952629-01-3 |last1= Cornet |first1= Manu}}</ref>''
* ''The Crab and the Lamb''<ref name=crab>{{cite book |title= The Crab and the Lamb |date= 2012 |isbn= 978-0-98852383-8 |last1= Cornet |first1= Manu |publisher= Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp }}</ref>

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[[Category:French editorial cartoonists]]
[[Category:French male writers]]
[[Category:Twitter, Inc. people]]


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