Grindr changes 10: just how ten years with GPS ‘dating’ apps modified all of us
On the day the guy introduced Grindr — precisely ten years ago this tuesday — founder Joel Simkhai mentioned the sole telephone call the man was given was from your player, Manhunt, with a buyout give of “$20,000 or $35,000.”
But after actor and comedian Stephen cook demoed Grindr reside on the British Tv series “Top Products” months afterwards in Summer 2009, everything modified. Simkhai claimed there were 10,000 packages immediately and it “felt like every gay guy realized about any of it.”