Sean Rad

You know, to me, leadership is when you sort of try to abstract yourself away. If things are dependent on you, then you haven't really achieved something. You haven't really been a great leader and given to the next generation, shared your talents and empowered other people.

So I think truly great leadership, the greatest CEOs are the ones that are there, always available, killing, pushing the company forward, but are building organizations that if they step away, can run without them. Because that's when you have a healthy organization. You can't have any individual be the source or single source of success or failure.

So I think truly great leadership, the greatest CEOs are the ones that are there, always available, killing, pushing the company forward, but are building organizations that if they step away, can run without them. Because that's when you have a healthy organization. You can't have any individual be the source or single source of success or failure.

So I think truly great leadership, the greatest CEOs are the ones that are there, always available, killing, pushing the company forward, but are building organizations that if they step away, can run without them. Because that's when you have a healthy organization. You can't have any individual be the source or single source of success or failure.

And you haven't matured the organization and that organization will never outlast you.

And you haven't matured the organization and that organization will never outlast you.

And you haven't matured the organization and that organization will never outlast you.

Before I started Tinder, I'd just sold a company and was thinking again, what is next? Reinvention. Around that time, the iPhone had just come out and been in the market for a few years. And it was really obvious, maybe this was a little early thought at the time, that this thing is going to change everything.

Before I started Tinder, I'd just sold a company and was thinking again, what is next? Reinvention. Around that time, the iPhone had just come out and been in the market for a few years. And it was really obvious, maybe this was a little early thought at the time, that this thing is going to change everything.

Before I started Tinder, I'd just sold a company and was thinking again, what is next? Reinvention. Around that time, the iPhone had just come out and been in the market for a few years. And it was really obvious, maybe this was a little early thought at the time, that this thing is going to change everything.

I saw very early that as much as the phone was connecting us, it was also separating us from the real world. You know, I'd sit at restaurants and I would just like observe. My friends were, you know, heads down in their phone. It was the weirdest fucking thing. We're all together in a table, but everyone's heads down in their phone.

I saw very early that as much as the phone was connecting us, it was also separating us from the real world. You know, I'd sit at restaurants and I would just like observe. My friends were, you know, heads down in their phone. It was the weirdest fucking thing. We're all together in a table, but everyone's heads down in their phone.

I saw very early that as much as the phone was connecting us, it was also separating us from the real world. You know, I'd sit at restaurants and I would just like observe. My friends were, you know, heads down in their phone. It was the weirdest fucking thing. We're all together in a table, but everyone's heads down in their phone.

And so for me, I was obsessed with this notion of how can the phone actually empower the real world and not take us away from it? So I had this insight one day, just kind of hanging around, looking at my friends on their phone at a restaurant. I'm like, how can this phone help me connect with people around me? And I realized there was a group of girls at the table in the restaurant.

And so for me, I was obsessed with this notion of how can the phone actually empower the real world and not take us away from it? So I had this insight one day, just kind of hanging around, looking at my friends on their phone at a restaurant. I'm like, how can this phone help me connect with people around me? And I realized there was a group of girls at the table in the restaurant.

And so for me, I was obsessed with this notion of how can the phone actually empower the real world and not take us away from it? So I had this insight one day, just kind of hanging around, looking at my friends on their phone at a restaurant. I'm like, how can this phone help me connect with people around me? And I realized there was a group of girls at the table in the restaurant.

And I would probably not walk up to one of the girls that I was looking at because it would be inappropriate in that setting. I would have to really put myself out there. I run the risk of getting rejected, looking desperate. So I sort of wondered what if I could just tell the phone that I like her? And what if she also would tell the phone that I like her, that she likes me?

And I would probably not walk up to one of the girls that I was looking at because it would be inappropriate in that setting. I would have to really put myself out there. I run the risk of getting rejected, looking desperate. So I sort of wondered what if I could just tell the phone that I like her? And what if she also would tell the phone that I like her, that she likes me?

And I would probably not walk up to one of the girls that I was looking at because it would be inappropriate in that setting. I would have to really put myself out there. I run the risk of getting rejected, looking desperate. So I sort of wondered what if I could just tell the phone that I like her? And what if she also would tell the phone that I like her, that she likes me?

And if we both like each other, now the ice has been broken. And now that fear of rejection is gone. Now we can connect. That what we call the double opt-in was the revolutionary thought behind Tinder. Every system of connection prior to that was riddled with this emotional angst and barriers to connection.