Grinder has this very unique approach of a grid right so you come to grinder and the first

thing you see is a grid of people around you if you're a free user you see a hundred people

if you are paying user you see a 500 or unlimited number of people depending on which TA you subscribe to,

but that's kind of the core thing and it's very open architecture style,

you can message anybody on the grid. There's no limitations, there's no kind of matching that happens

between people before you can communicate. That's worked really well for

Grinder, that's why Grinder is as good of a product as it is, so we don't want to

change that at all, but we do want to extend on that. of

it is so we don't want to change that at all but we do want to extend on that.

I'm Mary Long and that's George Arison,

CEO of Grinder, the dating, social media and entertainment entertainment app for the LGBTQ plus community.

My colleague Dylan Lewis caught up with Eresson for a conversation about how to build a dating

product that keeps users for the long haul, even after they found their person.

They also discuss grinder similarities to Uber,

prioritizing product development,

and the difficulties of building a culture

in a remote- first environment. So as I look out and a lot of our listeners look out on the dating and social meetup market, we tend to focus on the publicly traded names and in that

space it is match, bumble and really you guys for the major players. How do you

look out at the competitive landscape and how you're positioned?

Totally.

Well, we are a little bit of a unique product of those companies because we have a very

different target audience, right?

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