On the day the guy established Grindr — just ten years ago this Monday — founder Joel Simkhai said really the only telephone call the guy received is through the competitor, Manhunt, with a buyout offer of “$20,000 or $35,000.”

But after actor and comedian Stephen Fry demoed Grindr go on british television show “Top Gear” a few months later on in Summer 2009, anything changed. Simkhai mentioned there were 10,000 packages in a single day therefore “felt like every gay guy realized about any of it.”

“It’s generally a gay cruising program,” Fry informed “Top Products” number James May. “Get this, when you weight it,” Fry said, “up look all kinds of confronts and photographs. Read more