Sean Stephens

**Sean Stephens** (born September 1974) is a Canadian CEO, public speaker, singer and songwriter. He gained popularity among the H3 Crew after they discovered his song "Rectangular" on TikTok.

## Background

Sean Stephens was born in September 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the CEO of many companies (Treefrog Inc., PerfectlySoft Inc., Ubiqweus Inc., Blueworld Inc, and LassoSoft Inc.). Sean has held many different careers in his life including being a Shakespearean actor, a radio show host, an ambulance driver, a professional mushroom picker, web developer, house flipper, software engineer, electric car renovator, and ice-cream shop scooper. His mother runs an orphan project in Africa, and thus he grew up in Angola during the Civil War.

As a songwriter, four of his records have been top 10 in Canada. Sean holds post-secondary education in poetry, religion, politics & business. Sean owns one of the most popular programming languages in the world, has been on the front page of WIRED, and personally built a leading Content Management System. He has pitched Dragon’s Den 4 times and ran several successful Kickstarter campaigns for IoT. He won Entrepreneur of the Year for his city and was awarded Canada’s 150 medal for volunteer service, for years in service at a homeless shelter. He’s a regular Angel investor in local startups, and founded one of Canada’s top Startup Accelerators.

## Rise to Fame

On July 14, 2023, Sean posted a video to his TikTok account (@seanstephens.music) in which he was wearing a shirt and tie and standing in New York City's Times Square. The video's text overlay read "I came 1000km to New York City to do this.." and he announced that he was going to sing his new song "Rectangular." The video was reposted to Twitter and elsewhere, inspiring memes and reactions, many of which centered on him looking AI-generated, while others focused on Sean's green hair, and the song's strange lyrics, specifically his use of the word "hole" which is also an explicit slang term. Over the course of five days, the video gained roughly 644,900 plays and 6,900 likes. On the same day, he also posted the video as a Reel to his Instagram. Several other users then posted the video to X (formerly known as Twitter), many of which gained thousands of likes.

## History with H3

On September 11, 2023, the H3 crew watched Sean's viral TikTok video for the first time on H3TV #90. Subsequently after that, it was played multiple times on the show, and was used by Ethan as intro music for See You Next Tuesday.

Zach also made multiple soundbites, cutting the audio of the song in various ways to make different comedic audio clips, including Sean saying "I feel it in my hole".

Two weeks after the crew first watched the video, on September 25, 2023, Sean appeared on H3TV #91 as a brief interview guest. Sean appeared over Zoom call, and discussed with the crew his inspirations and what got him into music.

On September 29, 2023, the music video for "Rectangular" premiered on After Dark #122, with Oliver Tree in attendance.

## Trivia

* Ethan often misremembers his name and calls him Sean Evans.
* Sean held a world record for planting trees: 5750/day.
* He has been to 65 countries, lived on 4 continents, speaks multiple languages, has 4 first ascents on mountains, is a certified rescue SCUBA diver, has run 5 of the largest rapids in the world, has seen all but 1 of the wonders of the world in person.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Treefrog Inc. Sean Stephens, CEO - Bio. Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
2. ↑ LinkedIn. Sean Stephens (Rockstar, CEO). Retrieved on January 13, 2024.
3. ↑ Stephens, Sean [@seanstephens.music] (July 14, 2023). "Performing my new song in Times Square 🚨 Rectangular is out today, so I'd love to hear what you guys think!! 😄". via TikTok. Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
4. ↑ Owen (July 19, 2023). "'I Am Rectangular' by Sean Stephens". Know Your Meme. Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
5. ↑ Stephens, Sean [@seanstephens.music] (July 14, 2023). "Performing my new song in Times Square 🚨 Rectangular is out today, so I'd love to hear what you guys think!! 😄". via Instagram. Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
6. ↑ Lolo [@LolOverruled] (July 18, 2023). "Canadians are experimenting with sound in a way you can’t even fathom". via X. Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
7. ↑ P.E. Moskowitz [@\_pem\_pem] (July 17, 2023). [Video posted to X with no caption]. via X. Retrieved on January 12, 2024.
8. ↑ H3 Podcast (September 11, 2023). "8 Passengers Mom Blames Kids, The Crew Took DNA Tests - H3TV #90" [timestamped]. via YouTube. Retrieved on January 13, 2024.
9. ↑ H3 Podcast (September 25, 2023). "Russell Brand Sent Us a Legal Notice, Ethan's Tattoo Went Horribly Wrong - H3TV #91" [timestamped]. via YouTube. Retrieved on January 13, 2024.
10. ↑ H3 Podcast (September 29, 2023). "Oliver Tree Back In The Studio For A Serious Interview - After Dark #122" [timestamped]. via YouTube. Retrieved on January 13, 2024.