1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are your predictions on post-COVID trends? What are you seeing and predicting? What kind of businesses would you like to invest in the post-COVID era?  Fabrice Grinda: Crises, in general, are extraordinary accelerators of underlying trends. They are also extraordinary generators of productivity growth. If you examine the 20th century, the Great

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like your strategy is to go for the unicorns, is that right?  Fabrice Grinda: Yes and no. With all of the companies that we invested in, we want them to have the control to be a billion-dollar company. If you are building a venture startup, you need to be able to

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples of what you’ve invested in that are representative of your investment thesis. Pick one that you are proud of and one that would tell us more about your company.  Fabrice Grinda: First of all, we are thesis-driven, so we think through and ask ourselves, “Okay, where is the world

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs, discusses his firm’s investment thesis around marketplaces. Sramana Mitra: We are going to start today’s session with a conversation with Fabrice Grinda, the founder partner at FJ Labs. Let’s get you acquainted with our audience. Tell us a bit

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511th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Fabrice Grinda, FJ Labs

Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs, discusses his firm’s investment thesis around marketplaces.