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This Is What Happened To Tinder's Predecessor
Before there was Tinder, which just won a student the Ira Sohn contest for best write up for an "underappreciated valuation" in IAC, there was Adult Friend Finder, aka FriendFinder Networks, a website whose sole purposes was finding, to put it bluntly, a fuck buddy.
And just like Tinder, back in 2011 when the early stages of the current gargantuan tech bubble were only taking shape, nobody could hide their enthusiasm about the stock.
BizJournals recalls the froth accompanying the IPO of that particular "matchmaking" site:
The FriendFinder IPO was first announced in 2008, but was received critically in the depths of the recession.
At first, the company posited that it could raise more than $400 million, according to SEC filings. But that amount shrank as the IPO was delayed.
Mark Albright, a Miami attorney who handles securities law, but was not involved in the FriendFinder deal, said he recalls its IPO came on the heels of those for Angie’s List, Yelp and LinkedIn.
“It looked like they were following behind the success of other social media companies. Outside of Florida, I don’t think FriendFinder had the same appeal as LinkedIn or the Silicon Valley names,” said Albright, a founding partner with Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright. “At the time, I believe Penthouse Media companies were profitable, where the others weren’t. So it wasn’t a sexy IPO, so to speak, but it was credible.”
Sex toys, porn stars
When the IPO finally happened, it raised $49 million. FriendFinder shares have been in a virtual tailspin since it went public, and NASDAQ sent the company notice of delisting, which it is appealing.
Dvorkin alleges that, while the stock was tanking, Bell gave himself a raise and spent corporate money on things like “gift baskets of sex toys to non-businesspeople, funded restaurants and clubs, promoted the opening of a restaurant, used private planes for non-business purposes, hosted parties, dinners, trips, hired prostitutes and made payments to porn stars.”
This is what happened to the shares of AFF since going public: it lasted just 2 years before going, er, tits up.
This time, however, it's all different. Because you see: Tinder, unlike AdultFriendFinder, is "mobile"; it also has hides no ambitions about profitability in the near, or not so near future (AFF actually had positive EBITDA when it went public). And that's all that matters for the current generation of sophisticated investors: eyeballs (or in this case some other anatomical organ).
And then there is of course, Ashley Madison "a website for cheating spouses", which is looking to raise $200 million for its own unique set of ethically-fluid services.
Incidentally, the BizJournals article was titled "Prominent investors lose their money after FriendFinder IPO finds few friends on Wall Street." Fast forward to 2017 when the very same article will be republished, only with Tinder or Ashley Madison instead of FriendFinder. Because contrary to Fed-inflated popular delusions, it is never different this time.
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Tinder going up in flames
Only one out of 100 Tinder users knows how to start a fire (optimistic guess).
That's either a poorly edited-out band on her ring finger or it's a goliath wart...look at the shadow that beast is casting.
she has hands?
If only they would stay that way!
"Ethically fluid services"
There's a phrase for our times.
It should have its own NAIC
Beautifully ironic writing all around....
I got a handjob on my first date. She never showed.
Lol... brings a whole new meaning to 'knuckles'
Love ya work.
I hope you still respected yourself and leisurely smoke a spliff after the event... despite Emily 23's no-show.
Not a lot of people know this, but when you look at Hebrew version PLAYBOY Magazine, you go from right tit to left ~ Just sayin'
aff is for the freak community which is like every guy.
Tinder will light a fire in your urethra.
Is Emily still active?
i'd give little miss Emily the best 30 seconds of her life gigggitttty gigggittty
your name is appropriate
Eventually people realized that the only girls on tinder, were girls who were on tinder.
Sex is funny and ackwards, like popping Viagra a couple hours before a "sure thing" that goes south for some reason. Did that once it turned into moderate hearts spasms and for some reason super thirsty....
Wife and I banged many bitches off AFF
delete
After looking at that picture my pants all of a sudden got real tight. Wow.
What's that monkey on her back?
apologies, did not see it at first it was a bend over boy.
I was looking at the killer whale balancing a ball in the background....
All of that escaped me as though I were a deer in the headlights.
NAIC, wish I thought of it...
NAIC National Association of Investors Corporation
NAIC National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
NAIC National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
NAIC National Air Intelligence Center
NAIC National Aging Information Center
NAIC National Association of Investment Clubs
NAIC North American Industrial Classification System
NAIC North American Indian Childhood Cirrhosis
NAIC Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium
NAIC North American Industrial Code
NAIC North American Industry Code
NAIC No Action Is Contemplated
NAIC Nuclear Weapon Accident & Incident Control <<<<<<<<
NAIC NATO Analog Interface Converter
NAIC National Aeronomy and Ionosphere Center
NAIC National Association of Insurance Commissioners
NAIC Native American Indian Center (Ohio)
NAIC North American Interfraternity Conference
It's a Tinder Box
Not Available In Colorado
If memory serves, YouTube was established because one of its founding members was unable to find a video about Janet Jackson's "nipplegate" on the internet.
Innovation by titilation? Profound.
Did Bill Clinton write this article?
depends on your definition of "did."
and "write". certainly he inspired and encouraged, almost commanded, a great deal of sleazy, semi-public sexual behavior (in addition to further letting "regulated" industries rewrite their "regulations": glass steagall, brooksley born, etc.).
If he did, he sure as fuck wasn't in on the photo selection.
Maybe Tinder could team up with love doll/dildo/vibrator manufatures and use Amazon drones to deliver life-size dolls and toys - rentals of course - like blockbuster meets netflixs. Maybe... just maybe.....
You just know the next 'big thing' is going to be the Sexbot. Still don't know if the first version will be male, female or.....
The first version was liver. The second was a baloney chub. Then they gave us the Fleshlight. There is a progression there. BTW they already have sexbots in Japan
What don't they have in Japan?
I thought they were still fucking dolls over there, tho.
There once was a man from Racine,
who invented a fucking machine.
Both concave and convex,
it would take either sex.
But oh, what a bastard to clean!
I live in Racine. Do you have this guys number?
I'd rather fuck a machine than the disgusting river pigs in this frozen hell hole
Drive up to Kenosha or better yet, Carolville by the tannery, 3 for a $1.
You poor SOB. Racine should change the climate to make riparian models more attractive.
pig fucker
I think they have vending machines you can bang in Japan...right next to the actual soiled schoolgirl panty vending machine. I used AFF back in the day and got a laid a couple of times but hookers would have been cheaper and they come to you. Craigslist killed AFF, not Tinder...Tinder is a sheep hookup finder.
Them there blow me up dolls ain't real good fun cuasin I bit one on the titty once and she farted and floo outta the window
Good one
alleged hands
I for one, remain unconvinced.
Yeah I noticed the size of the shadow that breast is casting
I'd rather look directly at the breast.
Why draw inferences when the truth is beaming you in the face.
Girls with looks like that never get dates. They are in the majority and have to use social networking to get the slighest attention..
ChancesAre, she could turn off the internet, go to town, and get all the cock she wants...
It's a promise ring from her daddy saying she'll wait to fuck until her wedding night.
".look at the shadow that beast is casting."
OK, I admit it. I read ".look at the shadow that breast is casting."
We all know what causes warts to grow on your hands
Only one out of every 100 Ashley Madison users is an actual human being.
(Hard to get "dates" with yourself.)
Another scam to fleece unhappy, married, middle aged white guys.
I checked out Tinder just to see what everyone was talking about. I created a fake FB profile with no picture.
Every day I recieve notices of likes from girls with messages. The listings are obvious fakes with spam messages.
So , yes, Tinder is going the way of AFF and all the other pay sites. Tinder will soon be 90% fake profiles just like its brother FB
I am still holding out for the Bitish Emily chick we saw here on zh the other day. But, honestly, if this Emily shows up I'll be friendly and offer her some ... refreshments.
Just keep those fluid services ethical, kid.
Drink that organic protein shake - it's good for your hair and complexion, too!
Shaved
Not shaved
can't i have both?
I wonder if I can get someone to crowdsource my dream app... I call it SADE...(short for Search And Destroy Engine)...Type in any webpage, it cracks the password of the host computer, and instantly deletes that page...
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.jobs-review.com
"Love me Tinder, Love me Sweet...."
Elvis
FORWARD SOVIET BABUSHKAS!
May you live in interesting times
It all goes hand-in-hand; debauchery, greed, obfuscation, confusion and finally, implosion.
You forgot the drunken part..
Don't worry, I've not forgotten it.
Drunken my ass.
Days like these need blotter acid, and lots of it.
If given the choice of investing in cheating spouse companies I think Id rather buy 1000 shares of Don Draper and a Roger Sterling Straddle over these neophytes
I don't need Tinder as I get fucked in the arse daily by the gold cartel.
I don't understand the like for this statement. We all know AU is going to skyrocket when the Tribe loses control of the market. These cheap prices are a great buying opportunity.
Eric King from KWN, is that really you?
(says toungue in cheek, well sorta)
He didn't use the word "tremendous," so I doubt it.
"And that's all that matters for the current generation of sophisticated investors: eyeballs."
Eyeballs are all that mattered during the first dotcon era, too.
Hey!!!!
"In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king."
Warren Buffett, Bernard Baruch, Jim Cramer, Jesse Livermore...or some other such renowned investor.
Maybe sex doesn't sell....
Smart men know not to play with those who may claim the encounter(s) were non-consensual at any point in the future - especially when doing so may be profitable to the alleged victim and attorney.
Another good reason to expatriate and renounce US citizenship.
Just don't move to Sweden, but I guess that's old news already.
Ecuador would be a good choice....
TPP in big trouble then.
Internet porn is free, so why should it sell?
If you want real sex, that sells and it can be expensive, especially if you get married
QFT. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and there ain't no such thing as free sex.
TANSTAFS, anyone?
"...especially if you get married."
No shit....I am living proof of that.
As a wise man once told me.. the most expensive thing in the world is free pussy.
Mix Tinder with UBer and videotape it all for Brazzers. An Icarus valuation.
Now that is funny
You mean BangBros?
"picking" up girls on the streets and paying them to have sex with men in the back of a van.
Fake Taxi is more like it honestly.
One of these days I'll write a post... (and perhaps include links & screenshots).
Just like Uncle Reggie's Ultra Coin valuation. .0000001 / USD
Maybe he should IPO that fucking pig. If only he didn't post on ZH, he'd be a contender.
I was offered a job there (friend finder). I turned it down.
Yes, yes, but where can I find Emily?
I'd say that's a photo from the 1990's. Girls these days are all scarred up with disgusting ink.
Last I'd heard from Emily was that she had 10 kids and was living in Kentucky...
nope -- 1998-2008 -- the ad-hoc decade of belly-button rings; an era briefly overlapped by the lower-back-tat leitmotif; right at the nape, just above the buttock's beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoHDfXcm_M
janus
Ass antlers, Ho-tat, Tijuana license plate
I believe what you are referring to is the "tramp stamp." I haven't seen it go away...
Professional subway grinders find tramp stamps especially alluring and gratifying.
Ink away ALL!!!
It's like moths to the flame.
Hyjinx, if you haven't seen it go away, you need to learn about Turlington's Lower Back Tattoo Remover:
https://screen.yahoo.com/turlingtons-lower-back-tattoo-remover-000000691...
Actually the fad started in 1993
"Mr. Gaultier, always one to magnify the trend of the moment, showed one of the oldest trends of all: ritual body piercing. The audience might as well get used to it. Aerosmith's latest video, "Get a Grip," has a girl piercing her belly as a rite of passage. George Michael's "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" shows close-ups of pierced lips -- supposedly his -- singing."
"In Paris Christy Turlington faked piercing with her metal body jewelry. No need for that now. In London, a piercer went to Ms. Turlington's hotel room on Sunday, and that same day she showed off her new gold navel ring on the runway, in midriff-baring sweaters by John Rocha. "A lot of my friends have nipple rings, which I wouldn't do," she said after the show. "I already have a small tattoo."
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/19/news/patterns-686093.html
AKA the "P.O.T."... Pull Out Target
(a reply to Janus; wtf, ZH?)
Up until this very moment I thought I was the only one who found tattoos gross. Is it possible there are others out there that don't like fake tits and tiny asses? Have women been purposely brainwashed about ink and fake titties?
The more ink you get, the more ink your body needs before it looks....... Aaah, who am I kidding. Tattoos are addictive, and people seem to think the solution to a bad tattoo is another tattoo.
I got one and that was more than enough. No regrets, but I wouldn't get another
I (male) do not like fake anything. That feeling of something under the skin - yuck.
Tattoos are a turn off for me as well. When I was young tattoos were described to me as liberating and show others that one is special. My reply was why should I care what others think or do to themselves? Liberating as in joining yet another herd.
Check out the "Torches of Freedom" propaganda campaign to get women to smoke - http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/torches.html
The various human herds do some very stupid things.
I went to a plastic surgeon to remove an adhesion on my abdomen after emergency surgery. It is so strange to sit in a waiting room with size 2 women with GG breasts and some who obviously were there making an appointment to join the ranks.
When I was done with the proceedure and sent on my way, my surgeon shook my hand and told me he was so glad I didn't ask him to do my boobs. " you are beautiful the way you are now, too bad I can't convince other women the same." I was quite taken aback.
Miffed
What a poor, tortured soul, making a killing on someone else's narcissism. What ever will he do with himself?
I did comment to him on this and he told me for years he tried to explain to women the symmetry of beauty in a body, that a boob job WONT make a man stay with you and being stared at is not the same as finding someone who loves you for whom you are ( he's married for 30 years and absolutely devoted to his wife). All his explanations fell on dead ears so now he just focuses on the mechanics of the operation.
He told me it was the patients like me who he could really improve the quality of their lives were what gave him the most joy and gratitude for persuing his work. I really had a new respect for plastic surgeons after meeting him and he did change my life and I'm very grateful for what he did for me.
Miffed
Can we get some pics, umm, for research?
i can't believe you just asked her that, sunny.
so................ whatdya think, miffed? . any chance of that?
were you wearing that nice lingerie?
Dear gentlemen,
I must say all of you do make me laugh and warm my heart. I am so fortunate to have a man who passionately loves me, even after 30 years. My secret? I think it's just I am just responsive to what a man likes. I realize they are visual so I keep myself trim and in shape. I love sensuality in all forms be it fine food or a sheepskin rug by a glowing fire with a fine scotch. I love conversing in many different topics being quite inquisitive and love debate. True, I am genetically fortunate in that I'm reasonably attractive and have a natural feminine shape, nice breasts and a waist ( that does seem to be a big deal!) but to be honest to all of you, there are FAR more sexually beautiful women out there in the flesh and virtual.
Mr once called me a courtesan. An educated sexual woman a man has a companion, not a wife which is a political alliance. I really laughed at that! How could I be such if I pay him $5k a month! He had to re think his stance and just shrugged his shoulders. " Ok, I guess you are a unicorn."
Well, I guess unicorns are something special because he has spent over $1000 in that exquisite lingerie on me. I must say it is beautiful but it does
seem crazy. I do wear it every day ( including dr appts!) at his request. " my Goddess must feel pretty!" That makes me smile.
Miffed;-)
when I was young they were using tattoos for lamp shades--
Marketing solution to low self-esteem...
Upvote. I agree 100%. Shows poor judgement, poor time orientation, narcissism and all sorts of other nasty things making her unfit for procreation or long term relationship, in my humble opinion.
Here's some interesting reading:
http://www.returnofkings.com/45334/5-reasons-why-girls-with-tattoos-ando...
http://www.returnofkings.com/45944/science-confirms-tattooed-women-are-i...
When I see a tatted up female, the words to the Pantera song "I'm broken" start playing in my head. I"M BROKEN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-V8kYT1pvE
I predict the next tech bubble will be in tattoo removal machines. An entire generation of 20-somethings will realize what total douchebags they look like when turning 30 with kids in suburbia.
Dr Seuss was ahead of hjs time see Star Bellied sneeches.
Dr Seuss was ahead of hjs time see Star Bellied sneeches.
Especially now it is emerging that ink -particularly the colored ones- are toxic.
I don't have a tattoo but I can appreciate some really good artistic ones on people. The problem is most tattoos look ridiculous on people. And more so as you say when they turn older. Can you imagine the homes for the elderly in the future with old people having tattoos?
And this whole tattoo thing has nothing to do with culture as in some cultures where it has cultural meaning such as in an initiation ritual. It is just mass consumerism of individualism (aka pretending to think that one is unique and special).
She's less than a kilometer away on a server in the cloud.
Prolly spends a lot of time @ that NSA data center out West.
Barry Diller has been on TV this last week telling everyone who will listen to him that he owns it all....well not all..but alot of it..but he did not know how much...lol..
Ummm, that chick is wearing a wedding ring. There is plenty of tail out there that wont get you shot.
MILF
Odds are good that she's divorced already. Especially if she got married after college.
Sluts everywhere. iPhones, TINDER, facefuck, instagram, twitter, tumblr, jezebel, huffpo, fat acceptance, cock carousel.
Thank you feminism and social justice warriors. You have ruined most American women.
And who but our favorite tribe was behind feminism? How could be any other way?
"Diversity in body shape"
It's not about diversity, it's is about equality or equalization (destruction of the English language and the meaning of words and numbers).
Nah. You'll just wish they'd shot you, because compared to their plans for you shooting you would be the height of mercy.
I'd like to know how you got a picture of my ex girlfriend?
It wasn't difficult.
i got it from the guy on first base
wait, i think you got it wrong... isn't tinder the not-homo version of grindr? we're heading right back to Y2K only this time it's (mostly artificial / cyber)eyeballs are worth as much as pets who can't buy stuff!
Women are in the process of ruining Tinder by posting things like "not here for a hookup". Then why are they there?
Sloots. But its better for their image/sef-esteem if they claim to be "not here for a hookup".
Pure ego stroking.
.... so to speak..
Voyeurism rules
Capital-jism
Tinder, where our slogan is, "We guarantee you'll get fucked." It's simple, all you have to do is buy our stock.
This is how I got into investment banking. They kept saying I'd get to work with models 24/7/365.
Now that is a good one!
I've been trying to find a fuck buddy on ZH, but all I get are replies from former hippies named Cooter.
I thought I'd been laying on the charm. Dunno, maybe I'm going about it the wrong way.
"I'm sensitive, creative, grow my own vegetables, and my bed frame is strong, very heavy, and never corrodes."
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We're all ƒµç??? on ZeroHedge!
That's why we come here!
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V-V
I hear Million Dollar Bonus is looking too.
Well, to be fair, Emily does look friendly.
Nice assets.
Next year she'll be singin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uai7M4RpoLU
She's got huge ... tracts of land..
The Holy Grail I believe...
No thanks, 26 is as low as I am willing to go. Well, 25 if she is educated. Maybe 24 with wealth. Ok, 20anything, sure why not.
An estiamted 70% of accounts where dupes or fakes over at AFF, in order to fool desperate (male) suitors for love to sign up for their site for that one piece of ass they saw that they think they have a chance of shagging.
I was on Tinder for a week. I would say that 20% of the site was clearly dupes, just by looking at the pictures. It's probably more.