Jeff Bonforte

Jeff Bonforte is the 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. Before that he was Chief executive officer (CEO) of Xobni, a company that Yahoo! bought in July 2013.[2]

Amy and Jeff Bonforte

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.[3]

Bonforte became the CEO of Grindr in June 2020.[1]

References

"Grindr's New Owners Want to Create a 'Positive Place for Everyone'". www.advocate.com. June 15, 2020.
Swisher, Kara (2013-08-28). "Xobni's Jeff Bonforte Officially Running Yahoo's Communications Products". All Things Digital - Dow Jones. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
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.

External links

Jeff Bonforte's personal website (archived)

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[auto-1] "Grindr's New Owners Want to Create a 'Positive Place for Everyone'". www.advocate.com. June 15, 2020.

[2] Swisher, Kara (2013-08-28). "Xobni's Jeff Bonforte Officially Running Yahoo's Communications Products". All Things Digital - Dow Jones. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

[3] 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.