Jacques-Antoine Granjon pulls up to the posh hotel Plaza Athénée on Avenue Montaigne in his bright red Bentley. JAG, as he’s affectionately known, founded and owns Vente-Privee.com, which ...

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Jacques-Antoine Granjon is the eccentric billionaire founder of Vente Privée, the biggest flash sales site in the world. VP is a billion dollar company with almost as many imitators including New ...

Granjon is not a web guy or even a computer guy. He's a fashion guy. He started his first company out of college in 1985, working in selling fashion overstock.

Granjon found his path in the crooked byways of the Sentier, Paris’s garment district. He and some Sentier buddies turned themselves into Europe’s biggest closeout merchants, taking unsellable ...