Tinder and Bumble "don't treat 70% of their users very well," Grindr CEO says

Why Grindr’s CEO believes ‘synthetic employees’ are about to unleash a brutal talent war for tech startups.

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00:00I think the thing that's really different about now versus, say, even a decade ago is

00:05the number of people you will need to build a company is actually going to be much less

00:09than you needed in the past.

00:11Why?

00:12Because of what AI is going to do to how we work.

00:14And so if a company is starting now or especially a year from now, I can easily envision a company

00:19getting to 50 or 100 million in revenue with 25 employees because they'll have a bunch

00:25of synthetic employees as well doing a lot of the work.

00:29And so that's a really big difference because then the people you bring on board as your

00:33core team need to be exceptionally good because the synthetics are going to be providing leverage

00:39for them and then to be able to work that way.

00:41So I think talent is going to become more complicated.

00:44I mean, it's always difficult.

00:45But in startups, they'll be like, well, this is, like, OK for now.

00:49He'll be good enough for the next 18 months, get me to the next stage, and then I'll get

00:52somebody else.

00:53I don't know if you could do that anymore in a world that we're entering to in the future.