# Entrepreneur of the Week Dror Dorinbaum # Post 2 “Puzzles” When I was a kid I really liked to hate puzzles. I did not understand…
# Initiated week Dror Dorinbaum # Post 2
"Puzzles"
When I was a kid I really liked to hate puzzles. I did not understand the concept and really liked to complain about it. I did not understand and do not understand to this day who is the genius who came and said: We cut it. "
I'm sure there are a lot of benefits to assembling puzzles for a lot of types of people. The main problem in my eyes at least was:
What achievement can I attribute to myself when I finish assembling this fucking puzzle?
Did I draw the painting? No, it's someone else apparently also unrelated to the one who cut the painting.
Can I assemble a new and unique painting from the parts? No, there is only one way, take the time at the end you will get to it.
Due to the fact that I will put the puzzle together in a shorter time, will I gain any recognition? No, because there is no one to put it together parallel to me right now for measurement.
The first and last puzzle, I assembled, the drawing was great. When I finished I think it was my mother who said “Congratulations !, now put everything back in the box and start over. She may have had to frame it for a 5-year-old who just finished with brain strain fractures, a 1,000-piece puzzle and not collapse in a second any trace of the final product, but that's a discussion for a psychologist and not for this forum.
Want to say, if I want to be successful in what I do, differentiate, give added value to my partners along the way, to my clients, to myself, to create value in something that was previously worthless, so do not put together a puzzle, go fucking draw the drawing. Then you can call yourself an entrepreneur.
Jumping for the year 2008, me and most of my friends, working in rental jobs to bring the 5000 NIS home, I decided we could upgrade the quality of life of all of us without spending more money, and we rented a cool big villa. I figured for all of us that if everyone lived in a two-room apartment or even a room in the central area where we all lived, we would pay a lot more. And so the first partnership was formed with three of my closest friends and a friend who would later become my future wife of course Liron, in a 6 room ground floor villa in a secluded seat in the center.
In light of the success in the venture lol, I was probably inspired and decided to come up with the next thing. Most of my friends were single and most of them rightly lamented about the tough dating world. Around 2009 I came up with the idea of a crazy dating app (surprisingly almost completely similar to Tinder released in 2012 3 years later), the guys flew for it! I built a prototype application for the iPhone through a company, and without being confused, I made the first phone call for the largest Jewish dating company in the world.
They of course did not understand what I wanted because in my innocence I did not agree at all to reveal the purpose of the meeting. A month of phone calls a day to the CEO's secretary, and at the end I silenced them and the long-awaited meeting was scheduled, not before I sent them an NDA (confidentiality) document that I explicitly asked to sign the CEO (lol what innocence).
I arrive at a meeting enter a huge and insanely decorated office, the CEO signals me to sit down, opens the laptop, asks where to connect, and I start the presentation. For half a year I have been working on this presentation 10000 phones and quite a bit of money that I put on the prototype of the app and here it comes, the "Money Time". The first page of the presentation opens with a projector on the table, my heart on 200, and I open with the words: "A new digital age in the dating world begins here." I did not manage to catch my breath, the CEO stops me and asks to close the presentation. I asked him what happened and then he says to me: “Listen, you have ostrich daughter eggs sign me on a confidentiality document without revealing your intentions, exhaust my secretary and come here with a presentation for the app we have been working on for 3 years, take off your hat you are an entrepreneur ! But this is not your venture. ” My heart was crushed and with a polite smile I said thank you for the time and got out of there to the bus stop that would bring me home.
This story, like several others, are the ones that built the warrior I am today, and the truth has thrown at me the fear we have as entrepreneurs in every field to get “no”, and pushed me 100 times forward not because I am stubborn or super hero, but because when you get no or That you actually break your heart you develop an elephant's skin, you become purposeful, you expect the worst and from there start running forward, because what can already happen, max will tell me no.
So what happened to this app? Nothing,
I put the parts back in the box and started over.
In the next episode: (teaser)
"Then the seller ordered a police car."
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The stories are very interesting but my question is a bit different…
Is there also US real estate in your belt?
I would love to hear about that
You are a charming, fluent and thought-provoking writer! Just one small clarification (and I don't mean a comment), at most they will tell you yes, didn't you already have it in advance if you didn't come to the meeting .. so it will at most succeed????
A charming story and excellent writing