George Arison
12 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 4, 2024 by George Arison · across every show →
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Dec 4, 2024 negative
Arison: Partnering based on geographic proximity makes no logical sense
“Like, you normally end up settling down with somebody you meet in the geography you live in. And that makes no sense because the idea that the best person for you is necessarily in the city that you live in or in a town you live in makes like no logical sense,…”
Dec 4, 2024
Arison: Founders cannot completely change themselves under startup stress
“The idea that a grown adult is going to change everything about themselves is very low probability. Like, it's probably not going to happen. You can pick, like, one thing you really want to change, and I'm going to work on this really hard. But man, in a serie…”
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
Arison: Extroverted leaders must learn to embrace silence when communicating with engineers
“A lot of engineers actually are different. They probably have an opinion or whatever you said right away, but they spend a lot of time thinking through what they're going to say before they say it. And for like an extroverted dude who talks all the time, that'…”
Dec 4, 2024 neutral
Arison: Grindr will not hoard cash for potential acquisitions
“So one thing I can say is very clearly, we're not going to hoard cash for acquisitions. If there are acquisitions that are interesting at some point that we want to do, We'll, we'll deal with that at that point, but I don't think it's the right thing to do to …”
Dec 4, 2024 bullish
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Dec 4, 2024 neutral
Arison disclosed conservative Republican views to Grindr board before becoming CEO
“You know, when I was taking this job, I actually told the big shareholders. At this point, Grant was still private, so they're kind of the owners, like, look, I'm a conservative guy. I'm Republican. I'm also gay. I'm very social like, on on these social issues…”
Dec 4, 2024 negative
Arison: Making broad political statements distracts CEOs from serving stakeholders
“Broader political topics actually don't make statements on right now because it is not my job. My job is to be the best CEO I can be for Grindr, and things I might say that distract me from being Doing that job and providing my users with the most awesome expe…”
Dec 4, 2024
Arison gives feedback in writing to prevent withholding criticism
“So I give people like very long written documents that are like really detailed that I give examples, et cetera. And then I like send it to them in advance and then I sit down with them and go through them, which is not the, maybe necessarily the best thing fo…”
Dec 4, 2024 negative
Dec 4, 2024 negative
Arison: Tinder and Bumble dramatically underinvested in user experience
“And they've dramatically under invested in the user experience which is, I think why they're suffering so much. And it's not just Tinder. It's also Bumble, but basically happened. I think with those products is they had a hit, right? Like I had a thing that wo…”