The name Sean Rad may not be a household name, but 50 million people world wide use his app monthly. Sean created the very popular dating app “Tinder” in September of 2012. The app became a crazed success and now has millions of users worldwide. The story of Sean does not start there though.
Sean’s first attempt at an app was called “Orgoo”, it was met with very little excitement and largely was a flop. However refusing to give up, he partnered with some of his fellow students at USC and created the celebrity social media format called “Adly”. “Adly” was much more successful than “Orgoo” had been, this was very encouraging to Rad. Rad choose to pursue his entrepreneurial abilities and dropped out of school. Rad eventually joined Hatch labs where he met a software engineer named Joe Munoz and his USC partner Justin Mateen. Together they pitched the idea of a new meeting app that would be more like hot or not, the app would depersonalize the meeting process by just swiping instead of liking or disliking a persons profile.
The format then dubbed “Matchbox” would eventually be named tinder and would launch that same year. The app has experienced great success since its release and is now available in over 40 languages and present in almost every country. Rad basked in his success and is managing a new very large asset. See there site here.
Sean Rad’s story is both inspiring and uplifting; it shows that no matter if you don’t succeed the first time, there’s always another idea around the corner.