Rick Marini
Co-founder, President, and COO of Rails and former COO of Grindr, where he helped lead the turnaround from forced sale to a $2 billion NYSE debut. Founder and CEO of BranchOut, co-founder of Tickle, and angel investor in 60 companies with 15 unicorns.
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About Rick Marini
Rick Marini has spent 26 years founding and operating consumer technology companies. He co-founded Tickle in 1999 with James Currier, growing it from three months of cash at the bottom of the dot-com crash into the fastest-growing site on the internet, and later founded BranchOut, a professional network that reached 800 million profiles and raised $49 million.
In 2020 he joined Jeff Bonforte and Gary Hsueh to acquire Grindr after CFIUS forced its Chinese owner to sell. As COO he ran seven departments and helped lead the company from an 18 percent Glassdoor rating to a $2 billion debut on the New York Stock Exchange two and a half years later.
Marini has been an angel investor in 60 companies, 15 of them unicorns, started Protocol Ventures, the first crypto fund of funds, in 2017, and is now co-founder and COO of Rails, a crypto perpetuals exchange.
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