Bonforte: Yahoo attempted to acquire Twitter for $19M during its early struggles
Jeff Bonforte · How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B · Oct 13, 2025 · at 54:50
Jeff Bonforte, former VP of Communications Products at Yahoo, describes early encounters with iconic tech founders before their breakout successes.
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“And Jack Dorsey, I knew him when it was Odeo and spent time with him, and Twitter was failing, and we were, I was trying to buy it for nineteen million dollars at Yahoo, like, so we've met all these people.”
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