{"id":9691,"date":"2019-04-09T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/?p=9691"},"modified":"2021-05-28T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:03:40","slug":"creator-lab-podcast-fabrice-grinda-1-angel-investor-in-the-world-future-of-marketplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/creator-lab-podcast-fabrice-grinda-1-angel-investor-in-the-world-future-of-marketplaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Creator Lab Podcast: Fabrice Grinda, #1 Angel Investor In The World \/\/ Future Of Marketplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/9256916\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/fc4100\/\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/creator-lab\/id1145198837?mt=2&amp;app=podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9704\" src=\"https:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/listen-apple-podcasts-1200x307-1025x262.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"26\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1WOKaiG9F2etrzBzINRBGa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9711\" src=\"https:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/te\u0301le\u0301chargement.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGPMfHxFmgo\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fabrice Grinda has been called the most prolific angel investor in the world, even being ranked #1 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alejandrocremades\/2018\/08\/05\/top-50-angel-investors-based-on-investment-volume-and-successful-exits\/#6e2111247748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a> based on investment volume + number of exits.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s exited hundreds of millions of dollars from 500+ investments in companies like <em>Alibaba, Viagogo, Tencent, Airbnb, Betterment, Uber, Fanduel &amp; Palantir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before setting up his \u201cstartup studio\u201d &amp; investment fund, he started and sold multiple companies including OLX, the leading \u201cCraigslist\u201d marketplace of countries like India, Brazil &amp; Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>But things weren\u2019t always so rosy.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrice shares stories of living on $2\/day, living in his office because he couldn\u2019t afford an apartment &amp; missing payroll 27 times!<\/p>\n<p>We also discuss the future of marketplaces, how he\u2019d think of business ideas if starting today, the science of happiness, minimalism, and why we\u2019re still at the very beginning of the tech revolution.<\/p>\n<h3>Show Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Here are five things to listen out for:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Reasons to be optimistic \u2013 why we\u2019re the luckiest people in the world to be alive at this time and why we\u2019re only at 1% of the tech revolution<\/p>\n<p>(2) Minimalism \u2013 from living on a 20-acre estate in Bedford, New York, to \u201cisland shopping\u201d and then selling all his possessions \u2013 Fabrice has lived both extremes and shares his perspective on a healthy balance<\/p>\n<p>(3) The Science of Happiness \u2013 factors that make people happy and hacks to maximize your own \u201cmean level of happiness\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(4) The Future of Marketplaces \u2013 3 trends in marketplace businesses and a framework for thinking about business ideas<\/p>\n<p>(5) How Venture Capital Works \u2013 the typical startup investing cycle, from initial investment to venture capital funding levels at series A, B, C etc.<\/p>\n<p>Original interview at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creatorlab.fm\/fabrice-grinda-fj-labs-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.creatorlab.fm\/fabrice-grinda-fj-labs-interview\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fabrice Grinda has been called the most prolific angel investor in the world, even being ranked #1 in Forbes based on investment volume + number of exits. He\u2019s exited &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39,22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-interviews-fireside-chats","category-marketplaces","category-personal-musings"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Creator Lab Podcast: Fabrice Grinda, #1 Angel Investor In The World \/\/ Future Of Marketplaces. Categories - Entrepreneurship, Interviews &amp; Fireside Chats, Marketplaces, Personal Musings. Date-Posted - 2019-04-09T13:04:29 . \n &nbsp;\n Fabrice Grinda has been called the most prolific angel investor in the world, even being ranked #1 in Forbes based on investment volume + number of exits.\n He\u2019s exited hundreds of millions of dollars from 500+ investments in companies like Alibaba, Viagogo, Tencent, Airbnb, Betterment, Uber, Fanduel &amp; Palantir.\n Before setting up his \u201cstartup studio\u201d &amp; investment fund, he started and sold multiple companies including OLX, the leading \u201cCraigslist\u201d marketplace of countries like India, Brazil &amp; Pakistan.\n But things weren\u2019t always so rosy.\n Fabrice shares stories of living on $2\/day, living in his office because he couldn\u2019t afford an apartment &amp; missing payroll 27 times!\n We also discuss the future of marketplaces, how he\u2019d think of business ideas if starting today, the science of happiness, minimalism, and why we\u2019re still at the very beginning of the tech revolution.\n Show Notes\n Here are five things to listen out for:\n (1) Reasons to be optimistic \u2013 why we\u2019re the luckiest people in the world to be alive at this time and why we\u2019re only at 1% of the tech revolution\n (2) Minimalism \u2013 from living on a 20-acre estate in Bedford, New York, to \u201cisland shopping\u201d and then selling all his possessions \u2013 Fabrice has lived both extremes and shares his perspective on a healthy balance\n (3) The Science of Happiness \u2013 factors that make people happy and hacks to maximize your own \u201cmean level of happiness\u201d\n (4) The Future of Marketplaces \u2013 3 trends in marketplace businesses and a framework for thinking about business ideas\n (5) How Venture Capital Works \u2013 the typical startup investing cycle, from initial investment to venture capital funding levels at series A, B, C etc.\n Original interview at: https:\/\/www.creatorlab.fm\/fabrice-grinda-fj-labs-interview\/\n ","Category":["Entrepreneurship","Interviews &amp; Fireside Chats","Marketplaces","Personal Musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}