Rick Marini

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 26, 2026 by Rick Marini · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Rick Marini's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Everything said about Rick Marini, oldest first

May 26, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marini: Grindr Leadership Insisted PE Backers Grant Equity to All Staff
“Jeff and I were insistent with the other PE firm that everyone is going to have stock that will, you know, it will reflect their level in the company, of course, but we wanted everyone to have stock.”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 18:34 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marini: Only five employees held equity at Grindr before turnaround
“There's only five people that had equity.”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 15:55 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Grindr doubled revenue to $200M and EBITDA to $92M before IPO
“And in that last year, we were able to double the revenue to two hundred million, double the EBITDA to about ninety two million, and then take it public for two billion.”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 17:36 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Marini says 15 of his 60 angel investments became unicorns
“Naval Ravikant, I mentioned who got me into angel investing, and I've done 60 angel investments, and I've got 15 unicorns out of those 60, and he got me into angel investing, but then got me into crypto.”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 40:26 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marini: Grindr turnaround team terminated 70% of employees
“We ended up, and we don't normally do this terminating 70% of the employees, because it just, they were C players, and we wanted at least A minus players, if not A players, right?”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 16:56 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026
Assertion Supported
Marini: Tickle Reached Top 20 Globally and Sold to Monster for $100M
“Tickle became a top-twenty site in the entire world. At one point, we had a lot of traffic, and we sold that company to Monster which was a big company back then for a hundred million. So that was a great outcome. We had only raised one round of capital,”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 2:35 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Grindr's $600M buyout used $200M each in debt, equity, and deferred payments
“Grindr, we bought for six hundred million dollars, and of that six hundred million, we put two hundred million of debt. So call that roughly four terms of debt. I said they were doing about 45 of EBITDA. So about four terms of debt, which is again, pretty indu…”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 14:35 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
May 26, 2026
Disclosure
Marini: Tickle offered to return August Capital's $9M after dot-com crash
“And that's when we went to, and this was a hard decision at the time, we went back to Andrew and David, and we said, okay, it's clear this is not a blip. If you would like your money back, your nine million dollars back, we will give you your money back.”
Rick Marini May 26, 2026 ▶ 9:16 Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 100 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.