Jeff Bonforte
11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2025 by Jeff Bonforte · across every show →
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Oct 13, 2025
Bonforte: Founders must commit 20 years to overcome venture capital's luck variance
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, be successful, do it, commit yourself to 20 years. You know, be an entrepreneur for 20 years. Do four or five startups, because the amount of luck that has to overlap from externalities and internal things that have to cross …”
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Bonforte: Consumer AI agents will replace direct website browsing for internet commerce
“I assume that the world will instead end up with a smaller number of agents that act on behalf of consumers going out and doing work. That changes fundamentally the internet. It just means that if you have a website today that sells tickets or bicycles or what…”
Oct 13, 2025
Bonforte: Only naive beginners and 20-year veterans succeed in venture capital
“We say freshmen and seniors make all the money in, in the venture business, like in the entrepreneur business. So you either don't know the rules. So you go into your business and you break a bunch of rules without knowing, or you know all the rules and you bu…”
Oct 13, 2025 positive
Oct 13, 2025
Marini: Investors bought Grindr for $600M at 12x to 13x EBITDA
“So we bought it for about six hundred million. It was doing less than fifty million, about forty five million of EBITDA when we bought the company, so, you know, call that kind of 12, 13 X EBITDA, and the market was probably trading at more like 20, the public…”
Oct 13, 2025
Bonforte: Grindr was a rare retroactive CFIUS divestiture of a foreign buyer
“And this was one of the only cases ever where CFIUS had actually retroactively unwound a deal. CFIUS had denied deals with foreign buyers, but they had never, what they're trying to do with TikTok today over the years is TikTok would be the second one after Gr…”
Oct 13, 2025 neutral
Oct 13, 2025 neutral
Oct 13, 2025 positive
Bonforte: 70% of Grindr hires under new management were minority or LGBTQ+
“By the time Rick and I left, 70% of the hires from the, in the company were minority hires, basically. We were hiring people from the LGBTQ community, or we were hiring people that were in, in the DEI, which is not something people like to talk about anymore, …”
Oct 13, 2025
Bonforte: Negative emotions like anger drive customer behavior changes better than delight
“Instead people tended, entrepreneurs tend to focus on making customers Like, delighting customers, making customers happy, and I said, we really should focus more on pain and frustration and anger. It's the negative emotions that drive behavior changes, not th…”
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Bonforte: Bending Spoons cuts acquired app operational costs by 70% to 80%
“Vending Spoons out of Italy has an amazing business of buying individual apps, but then using a common set of back-end pieces and engineers, Right. They can reduce the cost by 70%, 80% on a business, and grow it because they're really good at the game of how t…”