Fabrice Grinda
12 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2022 by Fabrice Grinda · across every show →
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Jan 24, 2022 negative
Grinda: Employer reference checks on startup founders are a negative signal
“We tried doing reference checks on founders and realized that they were a negative signal. Some of the very best founders were horrible employees. They would talk back to their bosses. They would work on their startup at their job. They had the worst reference…”
Jan 24, 2022 positive
Grinda: Compounding 1% multivariate testing gains creates game-changing scale
“When you have something at scale like OLX, when you have three hundred million unique visitors a month, we're at like twenty million a day, everything you do is statistically significant. And as a result, you can have infinite one percent improvements that are…”
Jan 24, 2022 neutral
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Grinda: Exported high-end US computers to Europe to fund Princeton
“I went to Princeton and I studied economics rather than computer science because it explained to me the way the world worked. But I went to Princeton having no money coming from France. And so I actually built my first reasonably small company there, exporting…”
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Grinda: Zingy scaled revenue from $1M to $200M in three years
“We went from one million in revenues in O-two to five million in O-three, but most of that in Q-four, and so the most important date in my life professionally, in fact, probably to this date, is August 15 of 2003, when the check from Sprint
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Jan 24, 2022 negative
Grinda: LPs are too rigid and fail to back unconventional high-performing funds
“Now, the investment side, I definitely have a pet peeve, which is you would think that with a track record that we have, it'd be actually reasonably easy to raise capital. You would think investors or LPs would be more for it thinking and more creative in term…”
Jan 24, 2022 bullish
Grinda: FJ Labs generated a 300x to 400x return on Brazilian startup Méliuz
“An example, we invested in a rewards company in Brazil called Milius that was in a tertiary city. They had extraordinary traction, but because they were in tertiary city, and they were not very eloquent, and their English wasn't great, no one wanted to back th…”