Jeff Bonforte | |
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Known for | Former 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]
Jeff Bonforte | |
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Known for | Former 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]