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every year anyone Shaan Puri 10James Currier 6Rick Marini 5
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How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 11:27 Shaan Puri You sold Tickle for a hundred million dollars or so, so it's not like this was your, you know, you didn't have to do this.
- ▶ 34:23 Rick Marini Uh, and then that's where I met James Currier, Sean, to your earlier call out of James, and we started Tickle together, uh, and I was CFO there for seven years.
- ▶ 50:50 Rick Marini I think that's when James and I founded Tickle.
- ▶ 1:06:53 Rick Marini She was our head of marketing at Tickle. 3 times in the scene
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 44:18 Shaan Puri You also had a lot of virality with Tickle. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:26 James Currier so I, I, I learned about the importance of words in part because the first name I had for the company was Emode, which none of you can know how to spell or know what the hell that is, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:21 James Currier And, and with Rick Marini, who was also a co-founder at Tickle, it, it, you know, and Rick and Stan
- ▶ 59:27 James Currier I, you know, in 2006, when I left Tickle after the acquisition, um, I wanted to just build more stuff, and I had this great guy, Stan, who I just loved
- ▶ 1:16:29 James Currier I think that it's just fun to play in that game, uh, to see if like, like we at Tickle, we'd registered a hundred fifty million users when there were six hundred million people on the internet.
- ▶ 1:22:54 James Currier And then the second thing that happened was, we were at Tickle a few years later, and we saw a Korean company that was selling a digital rose, 32 pixels by 32 pixels or something, or 64 by 64, for four dollars and 95 cents.
Is This The End Of The Pod?
- ▶ 29:41 Shaan Puri And I was hanging out with Stan once and he was telling me about like what they did with tickle and how they sold that for like whatever to, you know, like a hundred million dollars to monster.
Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
- ▶ 44:08 Shaan Puri Um, Michael Birch, who was my investor in my previous company, and he was the original founder of Bebo, and he, he basically had sold, he created a social network, he sold it to Tickle, which was a quiz company, and Tickle was like a…