From Sticks to Success: Sean Rad's Entrepreneurial Journey

So in this instance, this one comes from Sean Rad, and he talks about how entrepreneurship is really learning how to build a house with sticks. And I remember when he first said that to me, that's not what you think about. From a guy who's built arguably one of the most successful tech companies of our time, Tinder, and you think now, well, he has tons of VC funds, and he had all these advantages, but in the very beginning, he had had one kind of small exit that. That allowed him to have a little bit of cash. But they were like sitting in a coffee shop trying to figure out how to build Tinder, and they were really stuck. They couldn't get anybody involved. There wasn't anything really different for it. And he was sitting in a coffee shop and kind of figured out this idea of, like, wait a second, what if we swiped right and swiped left and it all started from a tiny little stick? And then, you know, the only reason that that company, I think, was as successful as it was is the idea was good, but the execution was better. And so if. If you only knew how to, you know, collect sticks, but you didn't know how to manufacture them and them together and build them into something stronger, you're probably not going to win. So.