Colin Hodge is an American entrepreneur and author. He is a founder and co-owner of the dating application Down, which was released in January 2013 as Bang With Friends.
Hodge is from Hughesville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Hughesville High School in 2003. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Cornell University.
Hodge held roles at Microsoft and Amazon. He founded the dating service HeardAboutYou and worked on it at the Boost incubator in San Mateo.
Hodge, Omri Mor, and an unnamed third co-founder launched Bang With Friends in January 2013 as a Facebook application that matched users with friends who selected them in return. Hodge was the chief executive officer. The founders worked anonymously until May 2013, when Hodge's identity became public in connection with the Webutante Ball. By late May 2013 the application had more than 1.1 million users and had produced 200,000 matches. Apple removed the application from the App Store in May 2013 under a guideline barring crude content. Zynga filed a trademark suit against the founders in July 2013 over the phrase "With Friends". The application returned to the App Store in August 2013 under the name Down. A November 2013 iOS release separated dating and casual matching into distinct swipe gestures and extended matching to friends of friends.
Paktor, a dating company based in Singapore, acquired Down in a deal reported in January 2017. Hodge joined Paktor and led Paktor Labs, a division announced in February 2017 that developed acquired social applications. The division had eight staff and its projects included Down, Sweet, Goodnight and Kickoff. After Paktor merged with 17 Media to form M17 Entertainment, Hodge became the company's chief growth officer and the chief executive of its United States livestreaming app, LiveAF. He resigned from the company in 2019.[citation needed]
In 2018, Down, co-founded by Hodge, separated from its parent company, M17 Entertainment, and returned to independent operation. In February 2021, Hodge co-founded Snowball, a Taiwan-based nonprofit organization that compiles ratings of milk tea shops and retail chains in Asia based on their positions on Hong Kong, Taiwan and other human rights issues.
Hodge wrote Outrageous Startup Growth: Uncovering the Secrets of User Psychology to Scale Your Success, published by Wiley in 2026. In April 2026 it reached number 29 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list, where it was the sixth-highest title in the business and economics category.