Tinder CEO Out After Just Five Months

Next, the company responded to the Vanity Fair takedown by going on a Twitter rant.

Tinder has announced a few changes to its leadership team, including the stepping down of CEO, Christopher Payne with immediate effect.

Tinder co-founder Sean Rad has returned to the dating apps hot seat just five months after making way for outgoing chief executive Chris Payne.

In an interview with board member and Benchmark partner Matt Cohler, Swisher reported for Re/Code that it wasn’t going to be a “long-term fit”.

Payne was although a well qualified and experienced person, he was a veteran of eBay and Microsoft, but it seems that Tinder needed something different.

Christopher Payne will be leaving the company and founder Sean Rad has been called in to head the organization, Tinder said in a statement. “Given that, we thought we might as well take action on this sooner than later”.

Rad had served as CEO of Tinder until last November when he was stripped of the title.

So Tinder and Rad are back together.

“One of the things the board has to navigate is how much the company has to conform to the leader or vice versa”.

Sales profiles and interviews a series of Tinder users who seem hollowed by a seemingly endless supply of hookups but starving for real intimacy.

But as with most relationships, it’s impossible from the outside to truly know what went wrong – so pick up the pieces, Tinder and Payne, and make like all other Tinder users do after a few dates. They were just admitting that they made a mistake.

“Our intention was to highlight the many statistics and awesome stories that are sometimes left unpublished, and, in doing so, we overreacted”.