Fabrice Grinda
50 statements across 5 episodes · 16 bullish · 14 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 16, 2015 by Fabrice Grinda · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Sep 16, 2015 positive
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015
Grinda: Keep boards to five members with a 3-to-2 founder majority
“I keep boards small in general, like three or five people I'd offer board seats to the lead VC if you have one at seed and maybe the lead VC at A, maybe have the guy from the seed round actually drop off the board and have two VCs who are doing it, either A le…”
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 negative
Grinda: Seed-to-Series A information rarely justifies the valuation jump
“Well, the reason we don't typically follow on is usually, especially in frothy times, the amount of information you get between the C and the A is not enough to know that this is a clear winner. So often, so the price increases dramatically, the prorata of our…”
Sep 16, 2015 bullish
Sep 16, 2015 positive
Sep 16, 2015
Grinda: Moats are built through execution, not evaluated at initial investment
“And so the barrier to entry, in fact, if we look at how we select companies to invest in, and there's a bunch of criteria barriers to entry is not one of them because the barriers to entry or something you build, By virtue of executing, you build a brand, you …”
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 positive
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 negative
Sep 16, 2015 bullish
Fabrice Grinda raised nearly $20M via AngelList and FundersClub
“That said, we've been very happy and successful with this model. I mean, we've raised over ten million dollars through Funders Club and Angel List across different companies. Might even be close to twenty million at this point between the various multi-company…”
May 9, 2022
Grinda: FJ Labs Tripled Deal Volume and Cut Check Sizes by Two-Thirds
“So because the number of startups that was created tripled from 5000 to 15,000, we tripled the number of deals we did from a hundred to 300, essentially. And so I've had to divide my check sizes by three to not run out of money.”
May 9, 2022 positive
May 9, 2022 bearish
May 9, 2022 bearish
Grinda: Switzerland Is a House of Cards That Could Default
“Last year, as I was thinking through what are safe havens for cash, I was thinking of putting a lot of my cash in Swiss francs in Switzerland. And I did an analysis, and I realized, and I actually came to the conclusion that it's the opposite. I think Switzerl…”
May 9, 2022
Grinda Auto-Signed All Angel Investment Legal Documents Without Reading Them
“Every document that was ever sent to me, legal document that was sent to me, SPA, anything like company selling, et cetera, I auto-signed, or actually my virtual assistant in the Philippines who had my signature would auto-sign for me all the docs that I never…”
May 9, 2022 negative
May 9, 2022 bearish
May 9, 2022 neutral
Grinda Assigns 60% Chance to Macroeconomic Stagnation, 20% to Severe Downturn
“Today, in my probabilistic terms, I'd say there's a 20% scenario that we probability that we end up with a optimistic outcome from where we are, and I can explain why. Maybe a 60% scenario of what I call the Great stagnation, and another 20% scenario of, like,…”
May 9, 2022 bullish
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022
FJ Labs Evaluates 200 Weekly Inbound Deals Through Two One-Hour Meetings
“And instead of one hour meeting today, we have 2:01 hour meetings. So usually the inbound deals that we get about 200 a week, they go to someone else first and the team reviews takes the first call and I take the second call. So we went from one hour decision …”
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022 bullish
May 9, 2022 bearish
May 21, 2022 bearish
May 21, 2022
Invest if passing means lifelong regret over a founder, says Fabrice Grinda
“When you start the statement with, this is a foundational generational company, and the founder is extraordinary, and I'm going to regret this decision the rest of your life. You are. Do not, if you write that, make the investment.”
May 21, 2022
May 21, 2022 positive
May 21, 2022 bullish
May 21, 2022 neutral
Fabrice Grinda assigns a 60% probability to prolonged macroeconomic stagnation
“Today, in my probabilistic terms, I say there's a 20% scenario that we, probability that we end up with a optimistic outcome from where we are, and I can explain why. Maybe a 60% scenario of, like, what I call the great stagnation and another 20% scenario of, …”
May 21, 2022
FJ Labs receives approximately 200 inbound startup deal submissions per week
“Inbound deals that we get about 200 a week, they go to someone else first, and the team reviews, takes the first call, and I take the second call, so we went from one hour decision-making process to two Two one-hour meeting decision-making process over the cou…”
May 21, 2022
Fabrice Grinda auto-signed all investment legal documents unread for 15 years
“For 15, actually, probably for 15 years, every document that was ever sent to me, legal document that was sent to me, SPA, Anything like companies selling, et cetera. I auto signed, or my, actually, my virtual assistant in the Philippines, who had my signature…”
May 21, 2022 negative
Fabrice Grinda warned of an 'everything bubble' across asset classes in 2021
“A year ago, I wrote a piece called Welcome to the Everything Bubble, and I made the argument, and so that was in March 20, 21, that a combination of extraordinarily low, loose monetary and fiscal policy was fueling an asset bubble in every asset class simultan…”
May 21, 2022 positive
Jun 29, 2022 neutral
Grinda: 60% probability of economic stagnation, 20% chance of severe downturn
“Today, in my probabilistic terms, I'd say there's a 20% scenario that we probability that we end up with a optimistic outcome from where we are, and I can explain why. Maybe a 60% scenario of what I call the great stagnation, and another 20% scenario of, like,…”
Jun 29, 2022 bullish
May 1, 2025 bullish
Grinda discloses target entry valuations: $4M pre-seed, $10M seed, $20M Series A
“I'm coming in at Four pre at pre-seed, at 10 pre at seed, and at 20 pre at A's, and I feel very comfortable that in 10 years, these will be much, much larger with valid business models, and we less risk of disruption.”
May 1, 2025 bearish
Grinda: AI price competition will destroy investor value before winners emerge
“While I do think eventually a winner to emerge and they'll have the proper pricing power, and I do think in the long run you're able to extract value when you create value, there may be a lot of investor value destruction on the way up because people are compe…”
May 1, 2025 bullish
May 1, 2025 negative
Grinda: Taking companies public took all the fun out of founding
“And then I built three large venture-backed companies, and two of which ended up being public, and I was like, the last thing I would ever want is to be public ever again. Like, in fact, that took all the fun out of being a founder for me.”
May 1, 2025 neutral
Grinda: FJ Labs avoids early AI deals, preferring to invest in winners
“And that's why I've been staying at the sidelines, especially considering the valuations they've been raising at. I'd rather pay up when one of them seems to be the dominant winner, and I suspect that then price and traction will be more aligned.”
May 1, 2025 bullish
May 1, 2025 bearish
May 1, 2025 bearish
Grinda: Investors underestimate the risk of total loss in fast-scaling AI
“I feel people are underestimating the risk of zeros, even though something can go from zero to a hundred million AR very quickly, and usually they're priced accordingly. And I, you know, I care about, like, what am I, what returns, what do you need to underwri…”
May 1, 2025 bearish
May 1, 2025 bullish
Grinda: FJ Labs maintains 30% IRR by selling winners early
“I want to say the cheat code I use for IR, why I still can get 30% IR today, is the virtue of being diversified means I own two, one to three percent of any of the companies, and so what I've been doing is getting secondaries on the way up. So, I've been doing…”