Grindr, every mention
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every year anyone Sam Parr 23Rick Marini 15Jeff Bonforte 12Shaan Puri 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Grindr comes up
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 0:15 Sam Parr Basically, how we got here was Sean and I were talking about Grindr, I think, last month, and like how there was like this amazing story behind it, and we found out that you were the two guys who bought it and took it public and made it… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Rick Marini They had a certain timeline to sell the company and there was, you know, all the, the typical buyers that you think about, there was always someone super conservative on the investment committee that was like, I can't be associated with… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 Jeff Bonforte And Grindr did have a bunch of problems. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:03 Rick Marini Yeah, and to answer on the economics of the deal, um, from a high level at least, you know, we took Grindr public, and we'll talk about how we got there, but we took it public for two billion on the New York Stock Exchange two and a half… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Sam Parr Like, cause like, I mean, that there's like obviously cultural things going on here of like, two non-gay guys are now buying Grindr. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:51 Shaan Puri And if somebody's not gonna go buy a six hundred million dollar company like Grindr, but like, you know, there's other kind of midsize ways to play this game, right?
- ▶ 28:07 Jeff Bonforte And so Grindr's a home run because it's a dominant market player, you know, healthy business, profitable, et cetera. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:30 Rick Marini Jeff and I looking at Grindr, we, we knew what we would need to do to double revenue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:38 Rick Marini I think Grindr worked because we could apply 25 years of experience to it.
4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- ▶ 11:15 Shaan Puri There was a behavior that was happening that was not compatible with traditional dating and grinder came in and enabled that spoke to that and was able to do it, even though it was somewhat taboo. 2 times in the scene
Why Direct-to-Consumer Companies Are Awesome to Own | My First Million #217
- ▶ 16:20 Shaan Puri Grindr?