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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…”
Arison: Gay culture uniquely fosters friendships originating from hookups
“It's very not common for people to hook up and then develop a friendship in the straight world. It's very common in the gay world for that to be the case.”
Arison: Early startup employees make terrible managers because they avoid conflict
“Most people who work at startups in the first phase are really bad managers because they never learn how to be managers. They don't want to be managers and they don't like to make people feel bad.”
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…”
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'…”