Episode 36
Ep. 36 - Ross Fruin, GridRival
Owen
Monagan
Show Notes
Ep. 36 introduces you to Ross Fruin, co-founder and CEO of GridRival, which is the home screen for race fans.
Hear him discuss:
- How GridRival acquired 22,000 users within the first 5 days after launching, and how product virality helped it scale it to over 180,000 users in the first year
- GridRival’s progression from season-long fantasy into DFS, and what he’s thinking about as the next step in his long-term plan
- The challenges of the quickly changing data landscape within motorsports, and why he thinks it’s possible that data collection “may be a problem we end up solving internally”
- Being dismissed by investors as a niche operator before successfully raising $3m from investors who saw the motorsports audience as on that could drive venture-scale returns
- How he built an all-star advisory board at GridRival, and his advice for other entrepreneurs on what they should consider when looking for advisors
Learn more:
➡️ GridRival website
➡️ Ross Fruin on Linkedin
Ep. 36 introduces you to Ross Fruin, co-founder and CEO of GridRival, which is the home screen for race fans.
Hear him discuss:
- How GridRival acquired 22,000 users within the first 5 days after launching, and how product virality helped it scale it to over 180,000 users in the first year
- GridRival’s progression from season-long fantasy into DFS, and what he’s thinking about as the next step in his long-term plan
- The challenges of the quickly changing data landscape within motorsports, and why he thinks it’s possible that data collection “may be a problem we end up solving internally”
- Being dismissed by investors as a niche operator before successfully raising $3m from investors who saw the motorsports audience as on that could drive venture-scale returns
- How he built an all-star advisory board at GridRival, and his advice for other entrepreneurs on what they should consider when looking for advisors
Learn more:
➡️ GridRival website
➡️ Ross Fruin on Linkedin