Talk:Fabrice Grinda

Created section similar to Ron Conway
Added list of investments using same format as article for Ron Conway, a similar serial angel investor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BC1278 (talk • contribs) 17:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Requested for assistance with new content.
Hi,

I have a WP:COI here. I know Fabrice and am a paid consultant for him. As such, as per Wikipedia policy I will refrain from direct edits and make my suggestions here on the Talk page instead.

There was just a big feature article about Fabrice in the New York Times. It has significant new information about him, mostly of a personal nature, which is often hard to find on people like him. I'd like to suggest the following updates:

In: "Serial Angel Investor"

Replace:

"Crunchbase lists lifetime investments in about 150 private companies."

with

"He has made about 200 start-up investments."

New section:

Personal Life

Grinda is not married. A New York Times profile reported that in 2012, in a move he called “the very big downgrade,” intended to allow him more time to spend with friends and family, Grinda sold his 20-acre New York estate, his Manhattan apartment and his car, and donated his other possessions to charity, except for a carry-on suitcase with 50 items. For the next three years, he lived without a permanent residence or other possessions, at first staying with friends and family, and eventually, after friends complained, in hotels and Airbnb rentals.

Edsussman (talk) 21:06, 30 June 2015 (UTC)Edsussman


 * ✅ Seems like a perfectly fine edit to me. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:48, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Updates -- request review
As explained above, I have a WP:COI as a paid consultant to the subject of this article, Fabrice Grinda. I'd very much appreciate it if another editor would consider the following requests:

1. Update to 'Personal Life"


 * In 2015, he re-established a permanent residence in New York City, but continued to keep his personal possession under 50 items.

This aspect of Grinda's life (when he lived without a residence to simplify his life) was a major part of a long New York Times profile of Grinda, and so an update seems in order.

2. New section called "Philanthropy" after "Awards". This would be the sentence:


 * Grinda funds the education of 6,00 children in the Dominican Republic through the Dream Project.

3. In the section: "Serial angel investor", the number of investments is now out of date.


 * He has made more than 240 start-up investments.

I realize this is a self-published source, but such sources are sometimes allowable to add non-controversial facts to an article about the subject himself, where there's no reason to doubt authenticity. WP:SELFPUB In this case, there's really no other way to keep track of the investment portfolio.


 * As per the advice of NinjaRobotPirate, below, I propose the following instead, using the New York Times as a source:


 * As of June, 2015, he had made more than 200 start-up investments.


 * The first paragraph of the article should be modified to match this, with "150" changed to "200" and added as the supporting source, directly after the "200".

4. As a sentence after the list of portfolio investments:


 * In 2016, Ticketbis sold for $165 million to eBay.

5. As the new last sentence in "Serial angel investor", after the list of investments, could we add:


 * Grinda founded FJ Labs, an investment fund, which also employs 30 programmers in the Dominican Republic.

Many thanks. BC1278 (talk) 19:15, 11 January 2016 (UTC)BC1278


 * Instead of using a self-published source for #3, I would use an independent secondary source and date it: "As of [date], he has made X start-up investments." This is an encyclopedia article, not a resume.  We don't need to be up-to-the-minute.  Other editors may disagree with me on this; I've run into a few who think my view is wrong.  From a cursory glance, the other stuff looks alright. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:35, 26 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your review. I've modified the suggested edit above to the format you recommend: "As of June, 2015..." with the NY Times as the source. Regarding actually entering the edits into the article, as you know, Wikipedia strongly discourage people with a COI, which I have here, from making direct edits to an article. Would you mind making the direct edits or, if you prefer, specify here that you looked at these edits and I should  make them directly. Thanks very much. BC1278 (talk) 23:42, 27 May 2016 (UTC)BC1278
 * Looks good to me, and nobody has complained either here or at WT:BIOG. I'll add it to the article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:06, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, done. Let me know if I did anything wrong.  Or you can fix it yourself; that would be uncontroversial. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:16, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

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