Jeff Grass

Jeff Grass

Chairman & CEO - HUNGRY Marketplace, Inc., Chairman - buySAFE, Inc., Chairman - LiveSafe, Inc., Board of Visitors - James Madison University, Board of Directors - James Madison Innovations, Inc., Founder & EVP - PayMyBills.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffgrass
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffUgrass
Washington, DC
Member since April 02, 2019
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I am an entrepreneur & engaged leader who is motivated by big, game changing ideas that will make our world a better place. Quote_down
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I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
HUNGRY, LiveSafe, Inc., buySAFE, Inc., PayMyBills.com
If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to change the world.

Why did you start your company or why do you want to innovate inside your company?

Excited about creating and building purpose driven companies and we saw a huge opportunity in the huge and rapidly growing business and event catering market.

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

It's a lifestyle choice as much as a career choice because it's typically all consuming. There are also huge emotional ups and downs - almost every day. That said, you are never bored, you get to work with incredible people and get to build something that can have a positive impact on the world.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Not listening to feedback and talking to clients daily

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1) Get clear with what you are good at and what you aren't. Find great people to help you with what you aren't good at.
2) Be willing to change if things are working. Even if you thought your idea was amazing.
3) A clear purpose and core values will help ensure internal and external alignment around a common mission and approach

Full bio

I believe purpose-driven, people/customer-centered and goal-oriented organizations will succeed. Big ideas are hard to achieve but I relentlessly pursue them with courage, conviction and positivity. I am also a husband and father of two incredible children that keep me young and remind me daily to keep things in perspective. I am convinced my son, who has a great sense of right and wrong and an innate desire to help others, will be a real-life superhero one day. My daughter is as independent and fearless as her mother and will be a rock-star at whatever path she chooses in life.