OLX.com has been growing at an incredible rate across the world. The company has been one of our top clients when it comes to growth and potential. The vision of the founders, Alec and Fabrice, in addition to our efforts in social media has made this a true entrepreneurial success story.
Fabrice Grinda, was just interviewed by the blog OneThing and we thought it would be interesting to share his words of wisdom:
Fabrice GrindaFabrice is co-founder and Co-CEO of OLX and blogs at Musings of an Entrepreneur
Q: There’s a saying, to pick one thing and do it well. What’s your one thing?
Fabrice: I somewhat dispute the saying in the sense that having a wide range of interests and broad base of knowledge allows you to get “Gestalt” by making analogies between different contexts. That said, from a work perspective it is absolutely key to focus in order to succeed. In that sense my one thing is running OLX, one of the world’s largest free classified sites with over 120 million monthly unique visitors. OLX is essentially a Craigslist 2.0 for the rest of the world, especially Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, Portugal and Spain.
Q: What do you like about what you do?
Fabrice: It is hard to imagine the joy of entrepreneurship until you actually become an entrepreneur. The freedom of thought and imagination is incredible. It is only matched by the pride you feel from creating something from nothing, from giving opportunities to your employees and to receive thank you letters from your customers. Every month we receive hundreds of thank your notes from our users – they found the house of their dreams, the job of their dreams or simply got a good deal on something. There is nothing more gratifying for an economist to create a free marketplace to help people better live their lives!
Q: Anything else you’d like to add?
Fabrice: Follow your dreams or as Goethe said: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic to it!”
We feel motivated to come up with new ideas constantly because Fabrice truly appreciates our creativity.
Thanks Fabrice!
