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Jeff Bonforte

Jeff Bonforte
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Known forFormer CEO of Grindr

Jeff Bonforte is the former CEO of Grindr.[1] He was a senior vice president of Communications Products at Yahoo!, responsible for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Contacts and Yahoo! Calendar.[2] Before that he was Chief executive officer (CEO) of Xobni, a company that Yahoo! bought in July 2013.[3]

In late 2013, in regard to a multi-week Yahoo Mail outage and massive user dissatisfaction with the site re-design, Bonforte said at a weekly employee meeting that Yahoo would have to "kick users hard" in the nuts before they would leave Yahoo Mail.[4]

Bonforte became the CEO of Grindr in June 2020.[1] In September 2022, Bonforte moved into an advisory role when George Arison took over as CEO of Grindr.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Grindr's New Owners Want to Create a 'Positive Place for Everyone'". www.advocate.com. June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ "Yahoo attempts to take on Facebook with reimagined Messenger". www.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  3. ^ Swisher, Kara (2013-08-28). "Xobni's Jeff Bonforte Officially Running Yahoo's Communications Products". All Things Digital - Dow Jones. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Swisher, Kara (2013-12-11). "Kick the Can — Yahoo Mail Is a Consumer Disaster, but Company's Response Is Even Worse". All Things Digital - Dow Jones. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  5. ^ "Gay dating app Grindr names new CEO ahead of its public listing". NBC News. 2022-09-14. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
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