Grindr is known, above all, for facilitating hookups between gay, bisexual, and transgender men. But CEO George Arison sees room for the app to be more vocal in advocating for LGBTQ rights at a time many corporations, which have supported pride events in years past, have shied away from defending those rights as their companies come under attack.
Arison, a tech industry veteran and gay father of two who became Grindr's CEO soon after it went public in November, is troubled by what he sees as double-speak by many corporations' purported support for the LGBTQ community. "Companies might say a lot of wonderful things about their brand being pro-LGBTQ, but they don't put the dollars where they should," the CEO says.
