Sean Tierney

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Search every verified Sean Tierney interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a September 2021 podcast interview, Sean Tierney discussed his work as founder of Charity Makeover and his consulting company Grid Seven, which provides sales consulting for startups. Tierney stated that remote work is "perfectly here to stay" and argued that companies not offering remote options risk losing their best talent. He described the pandemic as "the ultimate A/B test" for different national approaches to policy and healthcare. Tierney expressed the view that the EU's approach to privacy, particularly GDPR, has raised global privacy standards. He also stated that the EU healthcare system provides a significant advantage over the US, citing a statistic that approximately 670,000 Americans went bankrupt due to healthcare problems in the previous year, while countries like Japan, Sweden, and Portugal had zero healthcare-related bankruptcies. He suggested that having multiple residencies or citizenships is important as a contingency measure during uncertain times.