Rick Marini
10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2025 by Rick Marini · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
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Oct 13, 2025 positive
Marini: Grindr's $2B IPO generated a 9x return on $200M equity
“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 years after we bought the company. And as I mentioned, as part of the deal structure that earned out, the first tw…”
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Marini: JibJab repaid $15M acquisition debt in three years, funding a recapitalization
“And with JipJab, it was throwing off so much cash that we paid down the debt in about three years. And then we did a refi where we recapped the company and borrowed another Fifteen million and then ended up buying out kind of half the investors with that. And …”
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
Oct 13, 2025
Marini: Naval Ravikant predicted Bitcoin would reach $1M when trading under $1,000
“I remember early days, Bitcoin, you know, was trading under a thousand dollars, and I said to Naval, so how big does this get? And he said, I said, what's the price of Bitcoin? He said, a million. And I said, a million? It's only at like, you know, 800. And I …”
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 positive
Marini: Partners bought JibJab for $20M using $15M debt and $5M equity
“The company was doing about five million of EBITDA and we bought it for twenty million. So four times EBITDA, which is a low multiple, but you know, Greg needed to sell it quickly and that's where we came out. And we were able to put fifteen million of debt on…”
Oct 13, 2025
Marini: The $600M Grindr buyout used $200M equity, $200M debt, $200M earn-out
“So the deal structure, the 600, there was about 200 of equity that went in. And, you know, some of that was our personal money, but most of it was outside money that we raised. There was two hundred million of debt. So Fortress was our debt provider. And then …”