Raad Ahmed

Season 5 - Episode 4: Raad on startups, life, and philosophy. I
think there's a common theme in my life where I just don't like
being told what to do. And, I'm kind of a little bit of like a
free thinker. Maybe that's sort of seeded the plants of like, not
really ever being able to hold a steady job. I just, wasn't very
good at showing up at one place at a specific time and doing the
same thing over and over again. I'm just not a very big morning
person. So whenever I had to sort of just forcefully wake up,
that would just dampen my mood right then. I'm just like a
curious person. So if I'm like told to do something and I don't
really understand the why behind it, I'm just not going to be
naturally into it. At Lawtrades, we hire people that really have
to be sort of like self-starters and self managers, and just be
generally curious. I’m good with like, sort of setting the stage
and setting the vision and giving them why, letting them know why
this work is important and the impact they could have, on the
greater society, if we succeed. I use a simple approach found the
different companies that I built. There needs to be some sort of
cycle that it goes through, which one thing leads to another. for
example, a platform like Uber, the more 
Uber drivers on the road
equals faster transport and a more successful product. So, I
think that about a lot of things in life and in business that
it's helpful to just look at it as a high level framework to know
that over the next 10 years, if you do this thing, there's going
to be some sort of compounding effect to that. Listen to the
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