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Best of Bootstrapping: Abacus Group Founder Bootstrapped a Virtualization Services Company

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Abacus Group Founder CEO Chris Grandi has significant domain knowledge in the hedge fund industry. When we spoke in 2015, he had self-financed a successful company offering to secure virtualization services to the segment with high service levels.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Chris Grandi: I was born and raised on the East Coast outside of Washington DC, and I grew up in suburban Maryland. For university, I went to the West Coast and attended UCLA. I then continued on to graduate work. I got my MBA from Harvard Business School. I moved out to San Francisco, California where I’ve been for approximately 20 years.

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