Grindr, every mention

Grindr: Joel Simkhai Jul 17, 2023 · 74 mentions

• ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Joel Simkai wanted an easy way to meet other gay men, so he built Grindr and helped it grow into one of the most popular dating apps in the world. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:37 Joel Simkhai And so that was really the inspiration for the user interface of Grindr, and it still remains today, is it's a grid of people. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 17:42 Guy Raz Alright, so you're working on this idea, and the name, you come up with this name, Grindr. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:44 Joel Simkhai And private label, what Grindr was. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 22:20 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, why Grindr began to blow up, even though it was prone to crash and kept getting one-star reviews.
• ▶ 23:03 Guy Raz Joel has just launched Grindr. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:06 Guy Raz So I hear this idea of Grindr, ok?
• ▶ 32:35 Joel Simkhai One was these grinder parties, and the other was press, and to reaching out to the press, and so, you know, I didn't have a PR firm. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:10 Guy Raz Stephen Fry was on Top Gear at, obviously, the racing show on the BBC, and he talked about how he had Grindr on his phone. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 42:32 Joel Simkhai We, you know, we had a number of people who helped with these grinder parties. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 46:04 Guy Raz One of the things that I think was a really interesting break, or probably, probably the first time that I, I think I can remember hearing about Grindr was, because I think by, by September of, to 20 11, you had like two and a half million… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 47:33 Guy Raz And said the company had no comment, no response.
• ▶ 48:25 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Grindr starts to get even more attention for all the other problems it has, from uncontrollable spam to critical concerns over privacy.
• ▶ 48:55 Guy Raz So it's around 2013, four years after launch, and Grindr has about five million total users. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 52:56 Guy Raz And one of those unintended consequences was that the app did put some people in danger. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 57:09 Joel Simkhai But, you know, this was one of my, I think my challenges at Grindr was not taking maybe seriously enough some of the other issues that we could have dealt with, that we could have helped, but 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:30 Guy Raz Um, this was a Chinese video game developer, uh, called Kunlun, Kunlun Tech Company, and they took a 60% stake, and that deal valued Grindr at a hundred and fifty-five million dollars. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:03:39 Joel Simkhai Love, uh, you know, there are people who, uh, have gotten married because they found someone on Grindr, and so, such a tremendous impact, and, you know, something that I love more than anything is matchmaking, and so, combination of all… 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:05:36 Guy Raz Around the same time that Grindr went public, you launched a new project 4 times in the scene