Sean Rad
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161 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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passion the energy to go and execute is their heart really in it and i kind of ignore those elements because i'm like oh idea is so good i don't want to miss out and nine times out of ten never works so the number one thing is team and passion i think you want a team that their heart and soul is in it like you have a founder market fit they are building the product for themselves
They are the customer. They understand it. It's coming out of some personal problem or experience. So they won't give up when times get tough. They'll power through. They'll iterate. They'll morph. Teams that are humble, self-aware, are able to recognize when they made a mistake and adapt versus constantly make excuses. This didn't work out. Let's blame the market.
Let's blame the circumstances rather than let's look at it. Will you invest in someone you don't like? Not anymore. Why not anymore? Because it just never works out. I think I have the luxury, the gift of being able to work with people that I really enjoy working with. And again, that's what life is about. It's about relationships.
The money doesn't matter if you don't have great friendships, relationships, partnerships, and love in what you're doing. It's like love is the energy that I think produces the best outcomes and the greatest results.
Non-obvious. It is very, very hard. Relationships, I think, force you, when they're good, to become better as a person. But in order to become better, you got to stick through the hard times, not give up. Do you think we give up too easily today? I think because we have more options than we have had in any moment in history, that increasingly we have the ability to switch and give up.
You go back in some moment of time, it's like you were in a tiny little village. If you're lucky, there was one person that you loved and cutting bait. I mean, where were you really going to go? You've had to stick through it. Now you could quit and you could say, okay, I'm going to trade this for something better. But I think the reality is every relationship comes with challenges.
It's just a question of which challenges. Once you stick through all the hard moments and you keep getting better and elevating, and then you look back and it's like with my wife, it's just like what we said about companies. Like all those challenges made us better. They brought us closer. We're stronger as a result. We're more resilient. The other day, I got into a little thing with my wife.
She had this moment. She's like, oh, like, is this going to always be a problem? I don't, you know, I'm like, are we going to get through this and everything? And I kind of looked at her. I'm like, babe, we've been through way worse. We've overcome all these challenges. So the answer is yes.
I mean, if this is like, you know, we've overcome every other challenge, every other moment where it's been like, oh, this is so hard. We've prevailed and we've become better. So this is no different. When you have the mindset that every challenge is working for you and is bringing you closer, that's when you grow. You can't grow without challenges. That's the thing of life.
I mean, if it was all rainbows and butterflies, what's the point?
I think that's a good formula.
To me, it's like one thing leads to another. When you have honesty, you have trust. When you have trust, you have laughter. When you have laughter, you have sex. I wish I made lots of girls laugh.
Well, I don't believe, I'm gonna get really spiritual with you. I don't believe our soul dies. I think our soul carries on and our soul through many lifetimes, including what we leave behind and the memories, we're sort of always contributing and always growing and always facing new challenges and elevating and maybe a soul level, but our body dies, our presence on this earth dies.
But I think our soul does. Are you scared of that? No. You can't have light without darkness. And you can't have life without death. If you would never die, then that means you're never willing to die for something. And that means you don't have a life of meaning.
And if you never have darkness, that means you're never overcoming anything and you're never risking, and you have a very bland, monotone existence.
Standing for something and willing to take risks for what you believe in and really love. I think the energy of that is love, right? So love is what makes me overcome obstacles, what makes me stick through. That to me is the meaning of living. What was the hardest thing to stick through? Building a company is not easy. You have moments when you're getting crushed. Any entrepreneur knows this.
People tried, but money doesn't solve, money doesn't create innovation. If money resulted in innovation, then you would never have disruption. I think so. It's like, just because you have more money doesn't mean you can beat us, because it doesn't mean you're the most creative. In fact, I would actually say sometimes constraints... force creativity, forces you to focus, forces you to prioritize.
When your resource constraints, you automatically don't do the shit you shouldn't be doing. You're forced to make a decision with your time, with your money. So I don't think necessarily more money. In fact, there's many startups that actually failed because they raised too much money.
And they threw money at the problem and they threw people at the problem and they didn't actually tussle or force themselves to think out of the box or get creative and find new ways to solve the problem. So I don't think more money necessarily solves problems.
I'm fortunate enough that I was able to navigate all of that and kind of... Did you take money out the way through Tinder?
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