Winner Takes Most with Serial Entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda

About this episode

Fabrice Grinda discusses vertical-specific marketplaces, investment strategies, and the future of technology and energy.

LionTree’s Antal Runneboom sits down with FJ Labs Founding Partner Fabrice Grinda, whose long and successful career in the tech space includes co-founding wireless mobile company Zingy as well as global marketplace OLX. Fabrice gives fascinating perspective into the opportunities around vertical-specific marketplaces; the process by which he and his FJ Labs partners select the hundreds of start-ups they’ve invested in; why humanoid robots and AI-powered investors are coming faster than any of us realize; and an inspiring vision for how future energy abundance will enable us to “waste energy” inventing the next cool thing. This podcast is for information purposes only. The opinions and views expressed in this material are solely the participant’s personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of LionTree or its affiliates. This material should not be copied, distributed, published, or reproduced, in whole or in part, or disclosed by any recipient to any other person without the express written consent of LionTree. The information contained in this material does not constitute a recommendation, offer or solicitation from any LionTree entity to the recipient with…

People in this episode

Host: Antal Runneboom

Guest: Fabrice Grinda

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• technology
• marketplaces
• investment
• AI
• energy

Keywords

• Fabrice Grinda
• FJ Labs
• marketplaces
• AI
• investment
• energy abundance
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FJ Labs, LionTree, Zingy, OLX

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