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Fortune
Jane Thier

Grindr CEO says you have to be 'arrogant and crazy' to become a founder

George Arison at Brainstorm Tech (Credit: Stuart Isett - FORTUNE)

Nothing is impossible to tackle. But the sense that something might be nearly impossible is the biggest motivator one can find—if you’re crazy enough to pursue it. That’s according to George Arison, a Soviet Union-born serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Grindr, the publicly traded LGBTQ+ dating app worth $2 billion.

“One of my motives in life is doing impossible things; that’s how I’ve shaped my life,” Arison said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Utah this week. “My whole life is impossible; I’m now here doing this, and look at where I was born. Nothing's actually impossible.” 

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