Cliff Lerner

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Cliff Lerner gave up a lucrative Wall Street career to launch an online dating start-up called SNAP Interactive. With little funding, Snap established itself as the leader and pioneers in the online dating industry, becoming the first social media company to become publicly traded in 2006.

SNAP’s dating apps have attracted over 100 million users and pioneered numerous online dating innovations including being the first dating site to integrate Facebook’s social features and ‘swiping’ into the online dating experience. SNAP’s revenue grew 4,412 percent from 2007 to 2011, making it the 9th fastest growing internet company in the US. 

Cliff served as Snap's CEO for 11 years until 2016 when it was acquired. He is a leading social media and onlin
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I can feel his energy just by reading this — very inspirational and motivating!

I can feel his energy just by reading this — very inspirational and motivating!

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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” —Jack Welch, author and CEO of GE from 1981-2001”
Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“I Don’t Care How Great Your Product Is. Tell Me How You’re Going to Grow…Fast People approach me all the time for advice on investments and ideas. The first thing I ask them is, “What’s your plan to acquire thousands of targeted users?” Inevitably, most people’s response is, “I don’t know exactly, but my product is so friggin’ unique, it’s going to blow people away! We’re going to get a ton of press and everybody will fall”
Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims and The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create”
Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

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