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Logan Head Built the Door After Collectors Found the Window
The Whatnot co-founder did not begin with a grand theory of live commerce. He watched collectors bend the internet to their needs, built what they were already asking for, and kept the useful rough edges.
Grant LaFontaine Put the Card Shop Inside a Phone
He sold Pokémon cards as a kid, endured a hundred investor rejections, and found Whatnot’s future by going live with a roomful of Funko Pops. The bet was never merely on auctions. It was on making online shopping feel inhabited again.
Vincent Diallo
Vincent Diallo is a French-born, trilingual (French, English, Mandarin) venture capitalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who brings a rare tri-continental lens to consumer and commerce investing. He is General Partner at Progression, a TikTok-alumni-led fund backing AI-native consumer products, and founder and Managing Partner of Interlace Ventures, a $14M debut fund dedicated to commerce technology. Before moving into venture, he served as CFO of Sinodis in Shanghai — scaling the largest independent Western food distributor in China from $50M to $200M in revenue before its exit — and spent seven years at Deloitte across Paris and Shanghai auditing global giants including LVMH, WPP, and Pernod Ricard. He is also co-founder of Bleu Capital, a transatlantic climate-focused family office.