The CEO of Grindr obtained his diploma with $ 500 in his pocket. Now the self-employed millionaire plans to bring their children to the office when they are 10 years old to gain grain
Grindr’s CEO George Arison knows what it means to start from scratch. Born in the Soviet Union, he immigrated to the United States in adolescence, jostled in odd jobs during his studies and graduated at university with only $ 500 in his pocket. Far from seeing difficulties like a setback, he credit him to give him the grain to transform himself into a self-made millionaire.
Now his biggest concern is whether her two children will have the same fire in their belly. So much so that he plans to bring them to the office since about the age of 10.
“When I was their age, my father came to say a good night and spend 30 minutes to talk to me about the fact that, in his opinion, the Soviet Union would collapse at the age of 15, and that the only people who succeeded if the Soviet Union collapsed was people who spoke English or knew how to shoot weapons Fortune. “There is a very lively contrast between what I obtained at the age of six and what my children get at the age of six.”
Arison has made his Taxi Magic foundation mark (sold for an undisclosed sum and now called Curb). He took the reins of Grindr, the application of LGBTQ + meetings with 14 million monthly users, in October 2022, with a salary of $ 1 million per year, plus bonuses and purchase options.
“There is no doubt at the moment, they do not go through enough problems to be put in place to succeed in the way I went through them – there is no dispute. My children grow up in Palo Alto, California, one of the safest and richest places in the world. ”
But there are things, says Arison, that parents can do to instill their young people the grain. It is a conversation that Aison and her husband had: how to help them overcome the future challenges that life throws, without removing anything “at the moment.
In the end, he found two solutions: skiing and observation.
The CEO of Grindr wants his children in the office to be young – because nothing strengthens the character like watching dad working for 12 hours days
Instead of protecting your children from work from work, Arison plans to bring them for the journey.
“I want them to be much more involved in my work than I think most of the parents would have their children involved in their work because I actually think that it is one of the ways to learn grandeur,” explains Arison. “I always work incredibly hard. I usually work 10 to 12 hours a day and I think that seeing what I do and how important love of work is. ”
He knows the impact of looking at the ambition closely. In fact, Arison used Shadow his grandfather at work in a “high-level role in the Soviet system” from the age of 7.
“He would bring me a lot to work when I was little,” added the 47 -year -old chief. “I think a lot of my work grain has just looked at him…. And so I think that my children observe me at work will be a really important thing for them to understand why you should work very aggressively, and that with great opportunities is still accompanied by responsibilities. ”
At home, Arison makes it a duty to put his work in a daily conversation – even if his children are still too young to really understand what the management of a business implies. “They don’t understand, but I do it on purpose,” he said, adding that he will certainly take them to Grindr’s siege in a few years.
Take children’s skiing to help strengthen resilience
Although skiing looks like the luxury vacation fabric, Grindr says he put his children on the slopes from an early age because it will test their resilience.
“Ski is actually not easy. It is a complex sport, and you will have to face things while you do,” said Arison, adding that he had to jump from the elevator 3 to 4 seats in addition to the end, because it would sometimes stop running.
“My children will probably not have to do this, but skiing is always difficult, and I want them to learn, probably both pleasure, but also the adversity of managing something like that.
It is also a way to bond. Like many parents, it is often wrapped in daily work. Skiing is a chance to really go out together.
“The other thing than many of my mentors or friends who have children, who are older and in a financial situation similar to what I am or better, have said that one of the things you can do is be very involved in one of their sports,” added the CEO. “Because if you are really involved in one of their sports, they develop a much closer relationship with you in a way they would not do it otherwise, especially if you are not the main parent of every day – the kind of thing of the day.”
“This is another reason why I put them on skis, because I wanted it with them. We do it together. And it is very important that I am there for them when they skit.”
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