Miguel Armaza sits down with the legendary tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs, a stage-agnostic Venture Capital fund that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups.

Born and raised in France, Fabrice is amongst the world’s leading tech leaders. 

As an investor, he has over 250 exits on almost 700 investments. With impressive investments such as Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero, Betterment, Klarna, Stripe, Palantir and Rappi. 

As an entrepreneur, Fabrice co-founded OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 300 million unique visitors per month. Having previously founded Zingy and Aucland, two highly successful sites.

In this fun episode, we discuss:

- Fabrice’s fascinating background

- Investing during COVID - why FJ labs never stopped writing checks during the pandemic and why early-stage investing is actually better during crises

- FJ Labs’ investing strategy and the kind of team and company they look for

- Why he loves building and backing marketplaces

- Fintech trends and verticals Fabrice is excited about and some of the common traits he’s observed in successful fintech founders

- Investing mistakes and why he knew he was gonna regret passing on Uber… but did it anyway

- The exciting democratization and explosion of tech Latin America

- And a lot more!

Fabrice Grinda  

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors. He has over 250 exits on 700 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Flexport, Delivery Hero, Betterment and Brightroll. Fabrice is currently running the startup studio and venture fund FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice was named the #1 Angel Investor in the world by Forbes

Prior to FJ Labs, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 300 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 30 countries and has over 10,000 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Portugal and many other emerging markets.

Prior to OLX, Fabrice was the CEO and founder of Zingy, a mobile content company, which he grew to over $200 million in annual revenues and profitability in 4 years.

Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe.

Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.

Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis. In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

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Fabrice Grinda, Founding Partner at FJ Labs – Serial Entrepreneur & Investor in 700 Startups!

Sal's Investment Syndicate List:  Sponsored by Peter fasse, patent attorney:  Angel investor Paul Silva has an idea about how to help startups after they exit accelerators. Launch413 is taking the friction out of getting and giving advice to founders. Great chat with a fun guest who is also a listener. Highlights:  Sal Daher Introduces Angel Investor Paul Silva “…because they're a first-time founder, so they're going to make all the first-timer mistakes. We don't want to pay the tuition bill for them to learn, right?” “…a lot of great founders out there that don't…have access to those things, and so angels…say no because they're inexperienced. That drove me nuts. That was the problem that inspired Launch413.” “…providing each of our entrepreneurs a virtual C-suite of executive coaches.” “…we get compensation…through a royalty sharing agreement with the entrepreneurs. We don't take any equity.” 413 Portfolio Startup IgnitePost Greatly Improves Responses to Sales Calls 413 Portfolio Startup Apprentiscope Takes the Friction Out of Hiring Interns Super Angel Jay Batson’s Back Story and Revenue Based Finance Sal’s Portfolio Company AceUp Makes Coaching Easy for Large Enterprises Sal Daher Asks Paul Silva About Ways to Back Early-Stage Biotech Startups Eric Ries’ Podcast Out of the Crisis Sal’s Critique of Syndications – Paul Silva’s Response QSM Diagnostics – Doing a Lot with Modest Funding Savran Tech., Purdue Company with Ultra-Rare Cell Technology Waseem Daher of Pilot on Why You Can’t Have Too Many Angels “As an angel, I love that my money is helping do all the things, but I really want to do more. I want to help.” Paul Silva Brainstorms Ways to Help Purdue Connect with Angels “There's a huge gap in what happens after the entrepreneur launches the company.” “He joined a group of these angel investors in New England where they ride in their motorcycle and they listen to angel pitches in different towns in New England”

Paul Silva, Angel Investor - Launch413

Restructuring a company can happen on all scales. Whether it’s within a founding team or a huge corporation, there are important common threads that are applicable across all business sizes to ensure value creation. On this episode of This Much I Know, we have a very special guest, Managing Partner Carlos Espinal’s father, Carlos Espinal Sr, Business Transformation & Restructuring Specialist, to discuss restructuring lessons that founders and CEOs can apply to their startups. Carlos Senior shares several past professional experiences that shaped his knowledge and understanding of how to best restructure a company. Carlos and Carlos discuss the importance of honest and transparent communication with stakeholders, identifying the root cause of a company’s problem, assessing the quality of a team on delivery outcome, and the key ingredients within a transformational plan.

The Business of Restructuring and Transformation

Samantha Huang, Principal at BMW i Ventures, joins William to share her venture capital perspective on investing in new supply chain innovations, highlighting two examples of optimization solutions developed by startups, her recommendations for companies with new products/technologies looking to move beyond the perpetual pilot cycle, and the factors her team considers when looking to invest in AI or ML applications.

Supply Chain Innovation

E54 Investing In Supply Chain Innovation

is a Venture Partner @ NEA serving on both the technology and healthcare investing teams. Prior to entering the world of venture, Jeff served as chairman and CEO of GE for 16 years where he revamped the company’s strategy, re-established market leadership and quadrupled emerging market revenue. As a result, Jeff has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” three times by&nbsp;Barron’s. In addition, Jeff is on the board of Sila Nanotechnologies and Twilio.   In Today’s Episode with Jeff Immelt You Will Learn:   1.) How did it feel when Jeff was told he was going to be CEO at GE? How did that come about? Did he feel the weight of responsibility when it was announced?   2.)&nbsp;When it comes to incumbents embracing innovation, what strategies work? Why do they work? What lessons does Jeff take from his time at GE on what worked? What strategies do not work? What are the biggest mistakes large incumbents make when adopting new products or strategies? What advice does Jeff continuously tell large company CEOs who ask this question?   3.)&nbsp;&nbsp;When does Jeff believe boards can be fundamentally impactful? In what circumstances do boards actually cause harm? What are the signs of the truly great board members? What are the causes of why board members can be misaligned with their founders? How should founders approach whether to listen or not to their board?   4.)&nbsp;How does Jeff think about trust in teams? Does he start fully trusting and it is their to be lost or start not trusting and it is their to be gained? What people do you want around you in a crisis? What are the signals of these people? What does Jeff mean when he speaks of "crisis accelerants and crisis absorbers"?   5.)&nbsp;&nbsp;How does David think about fear in leadership? What is the one thing that leaders are allowed to be afraid of? How do the best founders approach their relationship to paranoia? How do the best communicate their fears to their team?

20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have

In this episode Jo-Ann and Abdelfatah discuss decentralised politics.

Series 9-Episode 182 Decentralised Politics (DePo) with Abdelfatah Mouttaqui from Morocco

Discurso: Secretária Patrícia Ellen - Investimentos em Startups - FAPESP - 22.07.2021

Discurso: Vice-governador Rodrigo Garcia - Investimento em Startups - FAPESP - 22.07.2021

Carolina Arce es Co-Founder U-Planner y Co-Founder Impactus ventures

Legal Lab es un programa especializado en los temas legales que enfrentan los emprendedores y empresas mientras van creciendo. Especial atención tendrán los temas de Protección industrial e intelectual, Sociedades, Internacionalización, Due dilligence entre otros.
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Ep.8 Ll con Carolina Arce "Internacionalización de Startups, el caso de U-PLANNER"

In the fall of 1839, a young boy named Samuel Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri. Almost two centuries later, Clemens — more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain — has given the town an international reputation.

Hannibal is perhaps best known as the childhood home of Twain and the setting of some of his most famous books, including "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Tourists now flock to the town to learn more about the author, and many businesses in the downtown district have sought to honor his legacy.

For the latest episode of the Speaking Startup podcast, we traveled to Hannibal to learn more about businesses with ties to Twain’s legacy in the northeast Missouri town.

Plus, we spoke with the organizers of HERImpact Kansas City, a new pitch competition for female social entrepreneurs, to learn about the event and the need for funding of women-led startups.

Speaking Startup: Twain, tours and entrepreneurs

This Much I Know is the podcast from Seedcamp, Europe’s seed fund.

Tune into hear the inside story from startup founders, investors and leading tech voices: the people who’ve built businesses, scaled globally, failed fantastically and learnt massively.

Seedcamp invests early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Seedcamp provides the infrastructure to fast-track a founder’s vision and create value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon a decade’s experience backing exceptional talent.

Connecting you with the people, companies, and ideas revolutionizing global financial services. Our guests are the leading fintech founders, investors, and thinkers in the world.

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Through the Angel Invest Boston Podcast we seek to learn more about the creation of world-changing startups. Boston’s unique concentration of academic talent and entrepreneurial culture offer bountiful opportunities for conversations with people who have funded and built innovative companies. By recounting engaging stories, angels and founders convey lessons they have learned. These narratives illustrate the rewards of helping founders commercialize transformative technologies. We hope you too will find our dialogues entertaining and instructive. 
I’m Sal Daher, host of the Angel Invest Boston Podcast. After immigrating to Boston as a child and attending Belmont High School, I studied engineering at MIT and Stanford. Decades of work in international finance followed. During that time, I invested in a handful of ventures founded by friends and acquaintances. Now, I’m a member of Walnut Ventures and MIT Angels and spend most of my time as an angel investor taking stakes in about a dozen startups per year.

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast covers news and issues important to Missouri entrepreneurs.

Stories of startups from emerging markets.

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Welcome to the Supply Chain Innovation podcast, hosted by IndustryStar Founder & CEO, William Crane. In this podcast series we share real-world lessons learned, big ideas, and resources from some of the top industry change-makers and leaders at firms across supply chain, procurement, quality, materials, logistics, product development, engineering, and manufacturing with the hope that you'll learn new strategies, tactics, and tools for improving supply chain operations.

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