All Things Marketplaces with Fabrice Grinda
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Episode description
Fabrice Grinda (@fabricegrinda), entrepreneur and angel investor, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- What Fabrice believes about marketplaces and the trend towards verticalization that VCs don’t believe.
- How they evaluate investments and the four criteria that they use to determine whether they will invest or not.
- His breakdown of some of the failed marketplace startups.
- What you need to know if you’re building a marketplace business in 2020.
- His analysis of marketplaces for home school, child care, therapy, construction, and more.
- How this intersects with the future of work and the future of food.
- Why certain legacy marketplaces have managed to stick around.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
They discuss:
- What Fabrice believes about marketplaces and the trend towards verticalization that VCs don’t believe.
- How they evaluate investments and the four criteria that they use to determine whether they will invest or not.
- His breakdown of some of the failed marketplace startups.
- What you need to know if you’re building a marketplace business in 2020.
- His analysis of marketplaces for home school, child care, therapy, construction, and more.
- How this intersects with the future of work and the future of food.
- Why certain legacy marketplaces have managed to stick around.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.