Match Group Distances Itself From Tinder CEO Interview

Later on, Rad admits to still being sore about a Vanity Fair article critical of Tinder. The article, which was included in full in the SEC filing, included several comments from Rad that could be considered inappropriate.

After that tidbit, he then goes on to tell the Evening Standard that beauty isn’t enough, and that he’s seeking an “intellectual challenge“.

Rad co-founded Tinder in 2012 and his time at the company has not been without controversy. Instead, in September Tinder had an estimated 9.6 million daily active users, with users “swiping” through an average of more than 1.4 billion user profiles each day, the document said. In a SEC filing, Match.com said that the interview with Sean Rad was not approved, condoned by, and the content of the article in the Evening Standard was not reviewed by the company. The offering may value Match Group at about .1 billion, with Tinder considered to be a large portion of that.

“What? Why?”I tell him it means something else and he thumbs his phone for a definition”.

But Rad says Tinder is more than a hook-up app. ‘We’ve solved the biggest problem in humanity: that you’re put on this planet to meet people’. But Google’s IPO in 2004 was famously shaken up by an interview its founders gave to Playboy during the quiet period. While Match Group operates dozens of sites, analysts expect Tinder’s performance to dwarf that of its sister sites.

With Tinder’s owners The Match Group set to float on the Stock Exchange on Thursday, the app’s founder came across like a complete tool in his interview.

Rad talked in the interview about everything from being stalked by models to his awkward childhood to losing his virginity. That’s definitely not me.

He was demoted past year following a lawsuit from Tinder’s Former President of Marketing Whitney Wolfe who alleged another co-founder Justin Mateen sexually harassed her. Mr Mateen resigned from the company.

The Art Market Monitor’s Marion Maneker tipped us off to the remark, which Rad made to the Evening Standard on November 18. And for a few odd reason, Tinder’s VP of communications and branding, Rosette Pambakian, thought it would be a great idea to let Rad speak off the cuff with a British journalist on the eve of that IPO.

Rad’s handler apparently attempted to end the interview, and the interviewer, Charlotte Edwards, reports that she informed the CEO of the company valued at several hundred million dollars that “sodomy” is not defined as getting “turned on by intellectual stuff”.