LIANA GRIGORY

About

Liana Grigory

Liana Grigory, also written Liana Grigoryan, is an entrepreneur and technology founder in Los Angeles, California, and a United States Army veteran. She is the founder and chief executive of Grigoryan Capital Group LLC, a Wyoming holding company, and the founder of the four products behind it. Unusually for a founder, she builds them herself.

Liana Grigory, entrepreneur and technology founder in Los Angeles

The two spellings are the same person. Grigory is the name she works and publishes under and the one her companies are registered against; Grigoryan is the birth name, and it is still what appears on older records, on her degree certificates and on LinkedIn. Both are hers, and this page exists partly so that anyone — or any search engine — looking for one can find the other.

Service

She served in the United States Army. That is the part of the background that has the least to do with business and the most to do with how the work gets done: an operating discipline of planning before acting, verifying rather than assuming, and finishing what was started. It is also why the standards she holds her own systems to — deny by default, least privilege, prove the control works before calling it done — read less like engineering fashion and more like habit.

How she works

She builds companies rather than software for hire. Each product under Grigoryan Capital Group was started because the market was already there and nobody had built the thing it needed: three of them have gone from an empty repository to a running business, two shipping as native iOS and Android applications. Where she partners with an outside founder she does it the same way she runs her own — as a co-founder taking equity, not a contractor taking fees.

Building them herself is the commercial decision, not a hobby. It means a product costs what her time costs rather than what an agency charges, and it means two constraints get enforced that a hired team would negotiate away. Authorization lives in the database, not the interface, so a product cannot leak one customer's records even when the application code is wrong. And the cost of a product must not scale with the number of people looking at it — the discipline that keeps these businesses inside free tiers at rest, and the subject of much of her published writing.

Companies and products

Stack

TypeScript, React and Next.js on the front; Node.js, Firebase — Firestore, Auth, Storage and Security Rules — and Cloudflare Workers on the back. Capacitor for the native iOS and Android builds, Stripe for billing, Google Cloud for the rest. Where a product needs inference she runs it at the edge on Workers AI rather than routing user data through a third party.

Education

M.B.A., University of Hertfordshire. B.A. in Psychology, American Military University.

Selected writing

She writes up the decisions behind the products rather than the products themselves — where authorization belongs, what a feature costs when it succeeds, and what App Store review is really testing:

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Elsewhere

The same person, on the records that can be checked independently:

Work with her

Alongside her own companies she takes on a small number of outside founders at a time, and only where there is a real market already. Email [email protected] or use the contact form. Please do not send confidential material before an NDA.