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Rick Marini
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Jul 21, 2026
Rick Marini on the Day-One Speech That Turned Grindr Around
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Michael KoenigHOST
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

Rick MariniGUEST
It was about a three year journey and so many, so many incredible learnings to share on that.

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