Episode 51: Fabrice Grinda - Founding Partner of FJ Labs
About this episode
Amir Fischer interviews Fabrice Grinda, a successful entrepreneur and angel investor, discussing his journey and insights in the venture capital world.
This week on Generating Alpha, I sat down with Fabrice Grinda — serial entrepreneur, prolific angel investor, and founding partner of FJ Labs, one of the most active venture funds in the world with over 1,100 investments across six continents. Fabrice grew up in Nice, France, the son of a doctor. He arrived at Princeton, graduated summa cum laude in economics, and was already running his first business — Princeton International Computers, exporting hardware to Europe — before he had his degree. He spent a matter of months at McKinsey before walking away at 23 to launch Aucland, a direct eBay competitor in France that became one of Europe's largest auction sites. From there he built Zingy, a mobile media company he scaled to $200 million in revenue in four years, before founding OLX in 2006 — a classified ads marketplace that grew to 350 million monthly users across 40 countries and became one of the most trafficked websites on the internet. Along the way, he tried to buy the Alibaba.com domain from an unknown Jack Ma — and ended up an early investor in Alibaba instead. Forbes later named him the #1 angel investor in the world. Today, through FJ Labs, he has made over 1,100…
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