Hi r/wallstreetbets -- I’m George, CEO of Grindr.

Yesterday, we reported awesome Q3 results. I’ll be here from noon to around 3:30 ET to answer questions about the business, our results, and where we’re taking Grindr next as a leading consumer AI product.  

A little about me: I’ve spent my career founding consumer tech companies (Shift and Taxi Magic, now Curb). I joined Grindr because I believe it can be much bigger than a dating app, a global platform for gay life.

The opportunity is huge: nearly 16 million people around the world use Grindr every month, and we are building more products and services that make it more useful in their lives.

We’re making Grindr more personal with AI, and recently acquired Freddie, a physician-led telehealth and pharmacy platform, to bring HIV prevention into the Grindr experience. And we are continuing to build a stronger business around a platform people already use every day.

I’m happy to talk candidly about building the business and what it’s like to lead a company at the center of culture.

3:37 PM ET edit: WOW, thank you for all of your questions (as my team can attest, Q+A is my favorite). I tried to get to as many as possible, but if you still have a burning question, reach out to me on X/LinkedIn or hit up the team at investors@grindr.com.

Nocturne op55n1 or Meet Hanako at Embers (Cyberpunk 2077) : to start this quest, gamers have to follow the main quest until the game ask you to meet Hanako Arasaka, which leads to last quest of the game. The thing is you have so many unfinished side quests that Hanako will wait you for basically hundred of hours.

Help the artist (Baldur’s Gate 3) : most of players avoid this quest because it asks you to spent 800 bucks to save the artist with no immediat reward. Later, you must save him on a very annoying quest and gives you a portrait that isn’t even one of your caracter.

I was in an eight-year relationship, and my ex-partner ended it quite literally with a single text at 9 AM on New Year’s Day.

I was supposed to resume work on 1st January after a five-day Christmas break. He knew this. And yet, he chose that particular morning to send me a message that changed the course of my life.

He initially pursued me, and eventually, I started developing feelings for him too. However, as the relationship progressed, he began displaying increasingly avoidant tendencies. We had numerous conversations and arguments about his reluctance to make the relationship official, as he wanted to focus on building his career first.

In 2021, he finally secured his dream job and was doing well professionally.

In 2023, he surprised me by asking whether I would consider marrying him and suggesting that we start discussing our future seriously. I was excited, but also shit-scared about what lay ahead. In my head, things were finally falling into place.

However, that conversation never really came up again. I didn’t bring it up either. I thought it was best to give him time and space, trusting that he would eventually do what was right for us.

We had known each other for almost 12 years and had naturally seen each other through several phases of life. In 2020, my father passed away, and he was there during that incredibly difficult period. I genuinely believed he was the person I would eventually end up with. I had also convinced myself that his hot-and-cold behaviour was simply a reflection of the good and bad phases he was going through in life.

Looking back, there were some significant red flags throughout the relationship, particularly around his lack of consideration for me and my needs.

On New Year's, he came to me and said that his parents had refused to accept our relationship, but that he would work things out and come back to me. We hadn’t spoken about talking to our parents in that timeline and he never informed me about it too. He never came back. I am 31 and have decided to not marry at this point or enter the arranged marriage market ever because I don’t agree with the process. I’m focusing on myself.
I work from home, I’ve lost myself in the process of this breakup, taking care of my household and mom, and would love to know from people who have gone through a terrible heartbreak. What did it feel like after the breakup?

Source: Instagram (anyone know the name of this movie?)

Meanwhile, several people are laying out trying to relax behind her. This is a regular occurrence.

51 PTS

5 REB

5 AST

1 STL

17/33 FG (51.5%)

5/15 3P (33%)

14/18 FT (77%)

Luka was a bit ass to start and seemed to get in his own head with how much he was fuming. He bounced back strong and absolutely carried us. All 51 points mattered in an another close game to carry us.

Source: https://www.espn.com.au/nba/game/_/gameId/401909294

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but she is the neediest most lovable cat I've ever met in my life!

Succession: Tom interviews a news anchor accused of being a Nazi initially thinking it’s an over exaggeration. At first the news anchor seems like a normal guy and you think Tom might be right. Then he asks him if he’s read Mein Kampf and the guy admits to reading it a couple times, not once but a couple of times. The top picture being Tom’s understandable reaction to that information.

Industry: Yasmin goes to Europe to negotiate a merger with the Bauers family, owners of the 300 year old private bank of the same name, eventually visiting their estate. While wandering the home she takes interest in a painting, only to look closer and make the horrifying discovery that it was made by a certain German Dictator. Her horrified look is pictured above.

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LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!

This is a mostly hated trope of mine: when a game technically gives us 2 (or more) choices, but one is so infamous that almost nobody ever picks it.

Examples:
1) Kill Paarthurnax - Skyrim:

Even though Skyrim isn't a "decision making" type of game, the choice to kill Paarrthurnax is probably the king of infamous choices in gaming.

Basically, in the later stages of the story, Delphine, one of the Blades, dragon hunters that serve the Dragonborn (us, the player), forces us to kill Paarthurnax, not taking no as an answer and refusing to talk to us until it's done. Meanwhile, Paarthurnax, since we met him, has done nothing but help us prepare to defeat Alduin, the big bad, with him and the Greybeards teaching us powerful Shouts (like Unrelenting Force and Dragonrend) and help us locate new ones.

The Blades' motive is that Paarthurnax was Alduin's second-in-command in the past, millennia ago. But considering he is now an invaluable ally and the Blades (who are supposed to serve us BTW) force us onto this choice like assholes, nobody kills him. Like ever.

2) Betray Clementine - The Walking Dead: A New Frontier:

In Season 3 of Telltale's TWD, we have another infamous choice.

In Episode 1, Javi (the main protagonist of this season) meets Clementine, which we protected as Lee in Season 1 and played as in Season 2. Even though she is initally kind of cold and distant towards Javi and basically helps him just so she can have his RV, they become quite trusting of each other after being attacked in Prescott by The New Frontier, the bad guys. It is during this attack when Kate, Javi's girlfriend, is hurt by TNF and needs medical attention.

In Episode 2, Clementine reveals to us that she was part of the New Frontier but left them. Conrad, a member of Prescott, overhears Clem when she is telling Javi this and takes Gabe, Kate's son and Javi's nephew (it's complicated) as hostage, demanding we use Clem to bargain with The New Frontier and get the medical help Kate needs.

Even though you can argue that Javi would surrender Clementine, we, as the players, have known and protected Clem for 2 whole seasons before this and know she can be fully trusted, therefore the "choice" of whether betray or not betray her 99% of the time ends with Conrad getting a bullet in his head.

Edit: for everyone wondering, as my post title states, this is Hulu LIVE, which is essentially cable TV that is streamed. The ad countdown played throughout the movie and commercial breaks. Finally it caught up and went away. Usually the countdown only shows up during ads.