Sean Rad is a legend in the online dating world. he singlehandedly changed the landscape of online dating and dating as a whole with his mobile app called “Tinder”. as a young adult, he became interested in mobile technology, and eventually started his own company in college. Rad’s first company was call Orgoo, a unified communications platform, which incorporated tech from that early 2000’s era. unfortunately, that venture did not work out; Orgoo failed, but that didnt stop Sean from honing his entrepreneurial skills. in 2006, he founded Adly, a platform that facilitated celebrity branding. eventually, Rad dropped out of college to pursue these entrepreneurial projects. unlike Orgoo, Adly was successful, and Sean continued to run the platform for a few years. however, Rad sold Adly and joined hatch labs, which was an incubator for mobile apps. this was where Sean flourished, designing the future of the internet and social media interaction. in hatch labs, he was put in charge of Cardify, a retail card app. during his tenure at the labs, he began to contemplate the idea of a dating app based off of mutal attraction, or a hot-or-not for mobile. originally, this platform was called matchbox. after Seans dating platform idea won a work competition, the Cardify team was tasked to develop this idea furthur. at the end of 2012, matchbox was put out to the public under a new name: Tinder. by early 2013, Tinder had over 400,000 users, and a billion matches soon after. the appeal of Tinder was the gamification of meeting people. this concept was so widely acclaimed that Tinder earned a spot on the top 25 apps on the market, as well as get Sean Rad a “best new startup of 2013” award. this demonstrates a principal of entrepreneurship that Sean Rad exemplified; when you have a hunch, run with it! when you work with that, you can come up with something great.