Tinder’s owner, dating giant Match Group, opened to investors Thursday with shares priced at $12, on the low end of what analysts expected, capping what has become one of Silicon Valley’s more cringeworthy initial public offerings to date. Rad has made other public comments since Match Group’s IPO filing, and it wasn’t clear exactly when he gave the interview to the Evening Standard.
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Match’s Preliminary Prospectus claims that Tinder has 9.6 million daily active users, with an average of 1.4 billion user profile “swipes” daily.
In the written equivalent of the longest sigh in the history of humanity, Match Group also noted, “The article was not approved or condoned by, and the content of the article was not reviewed by, the Company or any of its affiliates”.
Rad boasts of his allure, explaining that a “supermodel, someone really, really famous” has been “begging” to have sexual relations with him, according to the article.
It’s odd, then, that this interview appeared during what is referred to as the “quiet period”, when executives of companies going public are requested to put themselves on mute.
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When he was questioned about this, Rad looks up the definition of “sodomy” on his phone and pointed out that was not what he meant. He said he was still upset about the article and that he gathered a few information on the writer – Nancy Jo Sales – that led him to believe “there’s a few stuff about her as an individual that will make you think differently”. No, not that. That’s definitely not me. The filing states that the company’s usage statistics are incorrect in the article. “What’s the word? I want to say “sodomy”?” Tinder CEO is also found as a living embodiment of his own service as he said that he falls in love every week and also made confessions regarding a supermodel who “begged” him on the app to have sex.
Rad is not listed as a principal shareholder in the company’s sharemarket documents, but the Standard claimed the float “will make him richer and more eligible than he is already”.
Tinder co-founders Justin Mateen (left), Whitney Wolfe (center) and Sean Rad.
How colorful was the Evening Standard interview, which was published Wednesday?
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When asked how many people he’d been intimate with, it was left to Rad’s assistant, Rosette Pambakian, to decide whether to answer. Here is something else that can not be denied: Sean Rad, the CEO of Tinder, has no idea what sodomy is.
