Growlr Founder Geoff Cook

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Introducing The Growlr Founder Geoff Cook Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots business coaching is a serial entrepreneur and public company CEO. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24. He sold his second company for $100 million. Of all the guests that have appeared on Join Up Dots he is one of the hardest to research. Most have a fixed talent base that they spin their ventures around. However our guest seems more than most to be an "idea" man who has an idea, finds an audience and then BOOM business time. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and live-streaming company with a $400+ million market cap. He has also spent $200 million in the last 3 years buying 4 companies, including most recently, Growlr, a dating app for gay bears. How The Dots Joined UP For Geoff Cook If you have no idea what a Gay Bear is (I do as I Googled it) this will of course become clear in today's show. Geoff also runs the leading podcast player, , which is an app that pays a digital currency called Podcoin to listen to podcasts. Geoff is the Winner for the Philadelphia Region. He is also a children’s book author of "" and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center. So as you can see this interview can literally go in any direction, with any question fitting perfectly. I suppose a great one to start with is what is his definition of an entrepreneur, and is this a title that is earnt or actually born with? And do the ideas come more and more easily once the first shoots of success occur in a business? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. Geoff Cook. Show Highlights During the show we discussed such weight subjects with Geoff Cook such as: Geoff revealed how he never claimed the badge of an entrepreneur when he first started earning his own cash. It was just something that he did. Geoff talked about his early stages in business and how he knew that he would need to scale as soon as possible We discuss about Product Market fit, and why it is so important to try you best to fit three key strategies - entertainment, status and utility. And lastly...... Why Geoff feels that the Live Streaming is still in its infancy and is ready to explode in all our lives. Watch out NBC and CBS!

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.
0:09.0	Join UpDots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Rall.
0:22.8	Yes, good morning to your world.
0:27.2	Good morning to you everywhere, whoever's tuning in to join up dots.
0:30.6	Thank you so much for being here.
0:32.2	Thank you so much for all the communication
0:34.3	we're getting and the people that are quite simply telling us that the content is changing their lives
0:39.8	well today's content will certainly inspire because he is a guest that's joining us on the show
0:45.6	because he's a serial entrepreneur and a public company CEO.
0:49.3	Now he started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24.
0:56.0	He sold his second company for a hundred million.
0:58.8	Now of all the guests that have appeared and joined up darts he is one of the hardest to research. Most I think have a fixed talent
1:05.0	base that they spin their ventures around. However, our guest seems more than most to be an
1:09.7	idea man who has an idea, finds an audience and then boom it's business time.
1:14.8	He's currently the CEO and the co-founder of the Meet Group, a social dating and live streaming
1:19.8	company with a 400 plus million market cap.
1:23.0	He's also spent 200 million in the last three years buying four companies,
1:27.0	including most recently Groulour, a dating app for Gay Bears,
1:31.0	and yes, I had to Google what that was. If you have no idea what a gay bear
	...

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