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Seidman was CEO of Match Group for two years before taking over at Tinder, which is owned by Match. The group posted revenues of nearly $500 million on adjusted earnings of $204 million in the second quarter of 2019. Tinder is thought to be worth at least $3 billion.Tinder CEO Elie Seidman says would-be tech entrepreneurs need to "take it upon themselves" to learn and remain intellectually curious if they want to succeed.
The most successful entrepreneurs and executives solve this problem, he believes, by maintaining humility and intellectual curiousity. "Think of Warren Buffett as an intellectual who applies his intellect to business thinking," he says. "Not all businesses end up being great businesses. But you do see entrepreneurs – and I was one of them – who work on businesses that are more challenged, and [appreciate that] you can sort of look at the world from an intellectual point of view, as a business thinker.