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Former GoFundMe CEO is looking for the founder who can bust through walls without crumbling 💎

31 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Rob Solomon, former GoFundMe CEO and veteran of Yahoo, Groupon, and EA, looks for founders with an unfair advantage and missionary mindset. Missionaries bust through walls for their vision. Mercenaries, chasing opportunity, tend to fail.

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This is Rob Solomon. Rob has been the center of every major internet revolution from Yahoo to Groupon. You were also at EA when you started your career. Pre-internet even. And what are you going to be looking for here? The best entrepreneurs, they have an unfair advantage. That's one. And then I'm looking for missionaries. In Silicon Valley, there's been a lot of mercenaries who have descended here and then all over the world. Those mercenaries never really make it. It's the missionaries who are going against the grain, who have a belief, who will bust through walls, who will do anything and everything to make it happen.