Grindr Inc. (GRND) Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 March 2, 2026 3:20 PM EST
Company Participants
George Arison – CEO & Executive Director
Conference Call Participants
Nathaniel Feather – Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Presentation
Nathaniel Feather
Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Okay. Great. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. My name is Nathan Feather, and I am Morgan Stanley’s small and mid-cap Internet analyst. I’m excited to be joined by George Arison, Grindr’s CEO. Thanks so much for joining us.
George Arison
CEO & Executive Director
Thanks for having me.
Question-and-Answer Session
Nathaniel Feather
Morgan Stanley, Research Division
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And with that, let’s kick it off. So George, for investors new to the story, can you give us an overview of the Grindr business and how it’s evolved since you joined?
George Arison
CEO & Executive Director
So Grindr is the largest social network of gay people in the world. By far, there’s nothing really as large as us or even close to it. 98% of our users are gained by men all over the world. We are in almost every country in the world, except for the ones that U.S. has sanctions on, including Iran, although we have gotten a lot of requests from Iran to be available there. So hopefully, not in too distant future.
And we’ve been around for almost 17 years now. The product kind of took off like Wildfire when it launched on iPhone and has grown every year ever since then. Grindr became public in 2022, and I became CEO that year as well before we went