Jeff Bonforte
American businessman
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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]
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| Known for | Former CEO of Grindr |
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]
