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Rick Marini

Investor

Jul 21, 2026

9:05
When you approached sort of this situation, how do you then go in? You've spent $600 million acquiring a company and how do you go in? What do you do next? Well, the grinder was an
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incredible experience for us.
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It was about a three year journey and so many, so many incredible learnings to share on that.
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So, you know, if we step back, Grindr had been, by the time we got there, Grindr had been founded about 13 years prior by a guy named Joel Simkai.
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He sold it to a Chinese company.
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And this background is important to answer the question.
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And the Chinese company, they really ran it like a black box.

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And in that stretch of those three months, what did you finally understand that you hadn't before? Because you turned it around.

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