Collective CEO Hooman Radfar: Built AddThis, Sold to Oracle

Most founders perform success. Hooman Radfar runs his company as a system of bets and plans for some of them to fail. In this episode, Hooman Radfar, co-founder and CEO of https://www.collective.com/, the online back office for businesses of one, talks about what he learned co-founding AddThis, which powered 15 million websites before Oracle acquired it in 2016, and how he is building Collective now. In this episode: Running a company as a portfolio of bets instead of putting on success theater How much to tell your team, and why "your job is alignment" Working backwards from the big bet, with quarterly checkpoints Choosing an investor: you get a partner, not a firm Building for a long thesis rather than a wave, and why culture is the OS Hooman Radfar co-founded AddThis and was a founding partner at Expa. He is now co-founder and CEO of https://www.collective.com/. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to get the next one. Learn more about Founders Network at https://foundersnetwork.com/ Hooman Radfar on co-founding AddThis and selling it to Oracle, building Collective as a back office for solo businesses, and running a company as a portfolio of bets rather than success theater. Full episode and transcript: https://foundersnetwork.com/podcast/h... Guest: Hooman Radfar, Co-founder & CEO, Collective ·   / hooman   Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube to get the next one.