Sean Rad
22 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 8, 2024 by Sean Rad · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Oct 8, 2024 positive
Rad: Startups need 'product-team fit' before finding product-market fit
“First step is product team fit. Do we want to use this product? And you got to be honest about that. And if we didn't want to use it and it wasn't good enough, back to the drawing board. So now we want to use it. Great. So the next is like product friends fit …”
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Sean Rad: I'd choose 12-year balanced growth over 6-year hypergrowth
“If I had the choice of rocket ship over six years, or maybe something that's a little more balanced over 12 years. I probably would pick a little more balanced over 12 years because, you know, it's not for the faint of heart when something, building any compan…”
Oct 8, 2024 bullish
Oct 8, 2024
Rad: I might not have built Tinder under billion-dollar pressure
“If someone came and told me when I was building Tinder, hey, you got to build a business that is going to transform the world, a billion dollar business. I don't even know if I would have built Tinder, because I didn't have the foresight to say that this would…”
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Rad: Stepping aside for an outside Tinder CEO was a huge mistake
“I sort of thought, and the board thought it would be a good idea for me to focus more on product and technology, which is where my passion was. That ended up being a very bad idea for the business. The, we brought in a new CEO that didn't work out, so I came b…”
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Oct 8, 2024
Rad: Pickup lines failed on Tinder, but specific profile questions succeeded
“Pickup lines never worked on Tinder. They were just laughed at. What did work is, if I was looking at your profile, and I noticed something in a photo, I noticed something about you, and I asked you a question about that, and I showed you that I actually care …”
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 neutral
Tinder employee mistook CEO Rad for IT, asking him to fix printers
“I had a moment where someone asked me if I could fix a printer. Like, I think they thought I was the IT person. I actually ended up fixing the printer. And then they found out I was the CEO and literally everyone was fucking with him.”
Oct 8, 2024 neutral
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Rad: Men struggling to attract partners must adapt rather than blame women
“I think that means those men need to evolve, and those men need to take the feedback. If there's something they're doing, it's great if, I mean, that's like a great sign, like, you gotta change. Something you're doing isn't working, and, you know, you're not a…”
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Rad: The trope that widely criticized startup ideas are good is false
“And if everyone tells you it's a bad idea, then it must be a good idea. That is a crock of shit. If everyone tells you it's a bad idea, then either it's a bad idea or you're asking the wrong people. You're not asking your customers.”
Oct 8, 2024 bullish
Rad: Real-world community experience startups will see rapid consumer adoption
“I think businesses that are creating experiences in the real world for us to come together are very good ideas because we talked about this. I think more than ever we are craving experiences Real world experiences with friends and that space hasn't really been…”
Oct 8, 2024
Rad: Parents fled religious persecution in Iran and arrived with $20
“My parents came here from Iran, Iranian Jewish. They built a, they had a successful business, lost it all. They had to basically flee the country when it, you know, Jews were being persecuted. And my dad came here met my mom here, but he came here with like 20…”
Oct 8, 2024
Rad: Tinder had a strict rule against calling itself a dating app
“You know, we actually, we had a rule against saying that Tinder is a hookup app, a dating app, a marriage app, an anything app. Like, we did not want to define it because we saw ourselves as this very effective tool of making an introduction.”
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Rad: Failing to fire underperforming employees is cruel, not kind
“I used to think that if someone's not performing, and if I fire them, or I hold them accountable, that I'm being mean, and I'm hurting them. It took me a while to see that, no, no, no, I'm actually being mean by not holding them accountable because love is als…”
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Oct 8, 2024
Rad: Men and Women Have Distinct Inherent Desires That Should Be Celebrated
“There are desires that men have and desires that women have, and they are different. And those should be respected and celebrated. Those shouldn't be demonized. And I think, you know, men want Want to protect. Want to want to feel like they are valued as a pro…”
Oct 8, 2024