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Miami-based restaurant, nightlife and hospitality entrepreneur David Grutman is owner of LIV, Story, Komodo, Komodo Lounge and the recently opened OTL. He is credited by Rolling Stone magazine as being one of the most important people in electronic dance music.
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Life and career
Grutman was raised in an Jewish family in Naples, Florida and attended the University of Florida. At age 21, he moved to Miami, Florida and worked as a bartender in South Beach. Next, he worked in marketing at firms Tantra and the Opium Group.
He is the CEO and operating partner of Miami Marketing Group (MMG), which he co-founded in 2008. MMG became MMG Nightlife after Grutman was asked to run the nightclub in Jeff Soffer’s billion-dollar revamping of the Fontainebleu Hotel.
Grutman owns a hotel nightclub named LIV. He also owns the nightclub Story in South Beach, Oro Nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and the LIV Sun Life Stadium.
Grutman reportedly discovered Electronic dance music (EDM) in Ibiza and began playing it at LIV, which helped take the club from $25 million to $40 million in revenue and positioned it as one of the foundational mainstream EDM venues in the United States. By 2013, the nightclub was the 5th most profitable nightclub in the United States, making between $45 and $60 million that year.
In 2014, Rolling Stone magazine listed Grutman on their 50 Most Important People in EDM, ranking him at number 11.
Grutman made his foray into the culinary industry with the December 2015 opening of Komodo, a pan-Asian restaurant located in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami. His second restaurant, OTL, opened in the Miami Design District in January 2017.