Fabrice Grinda
Entrepreneur, student and lover of life and aspiring Renaissance man
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Entrepreneur, student and lover of life and aspiring Renaissance man
Skip to content Fabrice Grinda, 400x angel (Alibaba, Knotel, OpenDoor, Flexport) and many X co-founder of Aucland, Zingy, OLX and company-builder FJ Labs Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to talk with with the angel and founder Fabrice Grinda about his 100s of startup experiences and mainly about systems — the system for selecting the right businesses for Fabrice, originally his 9 Business Selection Criteria along with its brand new update, and about happiness. Fabrice is a world-recognized expert on happiness, and we talk about the happiness of groups, not just individuals
Creator Lab Podcast: Fabrice Grinda, #1 Angel Investor In The World // Future Of Marketplaces Fabrice Grinda has been called the most prolific angel investor in the world, even being ranked #1 in Forbes based on investment volume + number of exits. He’s exited hundreds of millions of dollars from 500+ investments in companies like Alibaba, Viagogo, Tencent, Airbnb, Betterment, Uber, Fanduel & Palantir
It gives me enough consecutive time in both places to have the time to live the full New York life, and then to properly disconnect in Cabarete. He originally wanted feedback on his idea, but after a number of iterations (read Grit, Perseverance, and Happenstance: The Genesis of our Apprenticeship Program) he joined me part time while in this second year at HBS to help me filter my inbound deal flow and to find a new idea for him to launch. With today’s round sizes we can invest a maximum of $225k at pre-seed, $450k at seed, $1M in a Series A and a few million in a Series B but are often limited to smaller investments. As they were comfortable with our crazy strategy, while it gave us more firepower, and provided a small fee base to start building a real team, we decided to pull the trigger and FJ Labs was formally born in January 2016 with a $50M investment from Telenor complementing our personal capital and the small entrepreneur’s fund we run on Angelist.
It’s a little-known fact that there are amazing ski resorts less than 90 minutes from my hometown in Nice (France), a town usually associated with beach vacations. It stems from an odd mix of seemingly contradictory emotions: the adrenaline rush that comes from navigating tight trees on a steep slope, the natural grace and beauty of the surroundings, and the Zen-like serenity and peace of the entire experience. As adult life started interfering with skiing, I traded off quantity of skiing with quality. Their lodge is a 7-minute flight from Kelowna airport avoiding the typical 5+ hour bus trips from Calgary or Kelowna.