Grindr: Joel Simkhai

2023-07-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 9m ·by Guy Raz / NPR

How I Built This

0:00

--:--

About this episode

On the premise that a smartphone could vastly improve his love life, Joel Simkhai built one of the most popular dating apps in the world. In 2008 he was living in LA and looking for an easy way to meet other gay men. He saw the early potential of the GPS-enabled iPhone, and a year later,