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| We think that's really powerful and continue to do that, it will be really valuable |
| These strong results speak to the hard work of our team and also to Grindr's enduring relationship with the gay community as we help users all over the world to find and connect with one another |
| And I would say that our guidance is still extremely excellent |
| The engagement has remained best-in-class with more than 121 billion chats sent between users |
| And so given that in that environment, the team performed as well as it did is really exciting |
| Boost did a very nice job in our a la carte's performing nicely for us |
| In 2023, we also laid a strong foundation for long-term growth, such as developing a robust product roadmap, which includes some great work we are doing on AI and adding outstanding, highly accomplished leaders to our team |
| So Grindr has done amazing things historically in the community and frankly, for the world, and for people who need our product |
| And so as long as we build products that create value, I'm very confident that we'll be able to drive good financial format |
| We also recognize that we have work to do to help investors understand our story a lot better and appreciate this great business and products that Grindr is and to help make it easier for you to invest |
| So there's a broad set of use cases that people already use the product for, which is really fantastic |
| Our second priority focuses on our brand and ensuring that we proudly tell the story of Grindr's great legacy of serving and positively impacting millions of people in our user community around the world |
| And already, we are seeing really positive impact of the work that he and his team are doing |
| We are just coming up on our 15-year anniversary, and so it's quite exciting |
| And so we've seen really great progress in bringing on board a great engineering talent into Grindr over the last few months |
| To start out with our return to office initiative last summer, we believe strongly that the combination of an important social mission with the workforce playing to win is what creates great companies |
| I think it speaks to the fact that we have a really amazing business |
| Grindr has built a really incredible asset over the last 15 years |
| Maybe just double click on that to what's your hiring outlook as well as how you think about the cadence of margins as the year progresses? Vanna Krantz Certainly, we are really excited about another strong year in 2024 |
| And so that really has positioned us really well to show great growth in the future |
| Grinder delivered outstanding results in 2023, with revenue growing 33% to $260 million for the full year |
| Both revenue and adjusted EBITDA margin were well ahead of our original guidance for the year, and our revenue increased further from our guidance update in November |
| Overall, our performance was driven by a combination of paying user growth and increased average revenue per paying user as we benefited from the success of the launch of the Extra Weekly subscription and a full year contribution from our popular Boost a la carte offering |
| Now that said, we had actually incredible success in hiring |
| We continue to see strong engagement in our app throughout the year as average monthly active users increased 8% in 2023 over the prior year, and our average paying users increased 19% to a record 937,000 |
| We were extremely pleased with how little cannibalization we had, how we converted more and more users |
| We've built a really robust product strategy over the last year that we're really excited about |
| I mean this is a very, very healthy environment |
| Has been great to do this earnings call is our first year as a public company, and it's done really well, and so we're excited to be sharing these results |
| with both users and the products that we have today as well as really great momentum, both domestically and internationally and with the things that we want to do over the near and medium term |
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| It was in some respect, a challenging year from the perspective of our, some departures and whatnot |
| So a theme across a lot of dating apps right now is that they seem to be struggling to provide the Gen Z audience specifically with an experience that meets their expectations |
| Left unaddressed these inaccurate perceptions can have a negative long-term effects on our business |
| Operating expenses, excluding cost of revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 were $37 million, down 0.3% versus last year |
| And so I do not expect us to be able to get back to the numbers we're at, in a year |
| Net loss for the fourth quarter was $45 million compared with net income of $5 million in Q4 of 2022 |
| These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and our actual results could differ materially from the views expressed today |
| Do you feel like Grindr faces a similar challenge? And if so, what is the plan to help cater to the specific audience? Vanna Krantz Hey, there |
| We've been hearing anecdotal reports of burnout with dating apps and some of the mass market comps |
| Some of these risks have been set forth in our earnings release and our periodic reports filed with the SEC |
| We continue to see fairly consistent and healthy MAU growth around the world, and we have been pleasantly surprised by the pace of monetization |
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