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Grindr: Joel Simkhai

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

How to Launch a Gay Hookup App

There was no paid model initially. It was just like a grid, just like your photo album. The first photo essentially was the closest person. You would look at their profile and it would say, so and so is 500 feet away or five miles away. And then you could chat with them. I think at the time you might have been able to exchange photos.

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