Sean Johnson

As much activity as there is in the 43 trifecta, I don’t think it gets nearly enough lovin yet. I’d submit that these are the most creative, most intelligently thought-out social networking apps on the market right now. I vaguely remember the talk about the coop doing a deal with Amazon. Not sure if it happened, but the time will come very soon where all their hard work will pay off. It will be well-deserved.

His team is brilliant, and his ideas about business seem to represent more than just an approach to teamwork or product design. They seem to serve as a reflection of who he is and what he values – which, in my small world, represents the highest thing one can hope to do in a business.

The first time I read Seth Godin I was a junior in high school. In the world of business, there’s no one I look up to like this guy – his ideas are consistently on point, and you never read a book of his and walk away disappointed.

I’ve been fortunate enough to email back and forth with him a few times in the past 8 years – every time I’ve been strongly urged to create my own ladder rather than work my way up one. Though I’m in New York now, I hope I don’t bump into him until my own enterprise is flourishing. Probably the only guy I’d want to be ‘worthy’ of meeting when the time came.

Pretty lofty words for a guy I’ve never met. It probably sounds a lot like those girls in junior high who really wanted to meet Brad Pitt or something. I promise, there’s no poster of Seth in my locker…