The Dating App Founder | 8M members | Bootstrapped startup with a team of 50+ | Co-founder & COO of Inner Circle | Follow for insights on business, leadership and relationships

I build and scale companies by raising standards, strengthening teams, and scaling execution.

I’m an entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience founding and scaling businesses. 
I’m the Co-Founder of Inner Circle, a dating app founded in 2012, which has grown to over 8 million users across 50 countries. 

As Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Marketing Officer, I sit at the intersection of leadership, hiring, execution, and growth.

Across that journey, I’ve helped build teams from 0 to more than 50 people across two continents. 
I’ve interviewed 1,000's of candidates and hired 100's of high performers, giving me a front-row seat to what separates teams that scale from those that stall. 

As companies grow, performance rarely breaks because of strategy. It breaks when clarity fades, standards slip, and execution becomes inconsistent. My perspective is practical and grounded in operating reality. High-performing companies are built by A-player teams, clear priorities, and leaders who combine ownership with humanity. 

My leadership principles are:

⟶ Disciplined execution beats complexity. 
⟶ Trust works when standards are explicit. 
⟶ Momentum comes from focus, not motion.

This account is for founders and leaders who want to build companies that perform consistently as they grow, without losing speed, accountability, or their human edge.

To collaborate with me as a creator please contact: enquiries@alecrickard.com

Michael Krayenhoff

Most founders don't have a talent problem.

They have an "overthinking" problem.

The way you frame a hard moment decides everything.
Not your skills. Not your network.

The story you tell yourself.

Every team eventually hits a wall.
A bad hire. A missed target. A product that didn't land.

What separates the ones who recover from the ones who don't?

They see the same situation differently.

Learning to code at 35 wasn't about code.
It was about proving to myself that hard things are learnable.
That discomfort isn't a stop sign. It's a starting line.

That shift changed how teams around me operate too.

When the leader treats hard problems as puzzles, not threats,
the team starts doing the same.

It's not about being positive all the time.
It's about training yourself to ask a better question.

Not "why is this happening to us?"
But "what does this make possible?"

That's the real competitive edge.
Not the strategy deck. Not the funding round.

The mind you bring into the room every morning.

Train it like a muscle.
Push it when it wants to stop.
Question the first story it tells you.

The obstacle doesn't change.
But what you do with it always depends on how you see it.

What's one moment where changing your thinking changed the outcome entirely?

Drop it below. I'd love to read it.

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Rajeeb Dey MBE

4x Founder | CEO at Learnerbly | Recipient of Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion | Forbes Columnist | World Economic Forum YGL

2026 update: leveraging 15+ years experience in the HR tech arena (with Enternships & Learnerbly) I'm excited to be heading up a new AI HR transformation business called Hutora. We are currently operating 'in stealth' but partnering with ambitious global enterprises to re-imagine how they manage, develop and deploy talent (agentic and human) in the AI era. If you're keen to partner with us or learn more do get in touch or sign up to the waitlist on Hutora.com

Founder and CEO of Learnerbly - the workplace learning marketplace. We are trusted by some of the world’s most progressive scale-ups and enterprises including Flutter, Ocado, King.com, Epic Games, Activision Blizzard and many more. 

Employees are empowered to access the very best professional development opportunities based on what they need to learn and how they like to learn (coaching, courses, e-learning, conferences, books, podcasts + more) curated from 200+ of the top L&D providers. 

With 95%+ employee activation rates and 40-60% monthly engagement (3X+ industry average) across 200+ clients we have worked with, Learnerbly creates impactful learning cultures for the modern hybrid organization. 

Prior to Learnerbly Rajeeb founded Enternships.com, a portal that connects students and graduates to work placements in over 7000 start-ups and SMEs, and which developed innovative corporate talent programmes for clients such as Telefonica, Santander, and Havas for which he was named the “02 X Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2009 and the youngest recipient of the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2013. 

Rajeeb is also the Co-Founder of StartUp Britain, a national entrepreneurship campaign supported by the government; it was launched by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in March 2011. He served as a Trustee of UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs for over 10 years, and was recognised as one of the 1,000 Most Influential People in London by The Evening Standard. He graduated with First Class Honours in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford in 2008 and was appointed as the world's youngest Young Global Leader (at 26) by the World Economic Forum in 2012. 

Rajeeb is also a contributor for Forbes.com writing on issues such as the leadership, 'future of work' (or just work these days!), and entrepreneurship.

Founder & CEO

Learnerbly is the workplace learning marketplace; empowering employees to access curated content from 250+ of the best L&D providers including books, podcasts, e-learning, coaches, conferences + more. With 95%+ employee activation rates and 40-60% monthly engagement (3X+ industry average) across 100+ clients incl King.com, Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, IDEO, HelloFresh, Bazaarvoice & many more. Learnerbly creates impactful learning cultures for the modern hybrid organization. 

We are supported by a world-class Advisory Board including Jeff Ryan (CPO of McAfee, former CPO of Zynga), Shelby Wolpa (former VP People Ops at InVision), Stephan Thoma (former Global Head of Learning at Google); Renaud Visage (Co-Founder & CTO of Eventbrite) and Peter Collingridge (former VP Product at Safari Books Online)

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