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Big Technology Podcast

How Gen Z Dates Online — With Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Tinder. He took over the world’s most popular dating app last summer, in the heart of the pandemic, and is starting to evolve its product to give people new ways to connect. Lanzone joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how Gen Z wants to date online, how their behavior differs from millennials, and how that factors into his product vision. We also talk about the business of Tinder, whether Lanzone lets his kids use the app, and where its next challenger might come from.

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Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

0:57.0

Our guest today is Jim Lanzone. He's the CEO of Tinder and someone who I've known for quite some time, dating back to his days running CBS Interactive.

1:05.5

Jim, welcome to the show.

1:07.4

It's great to be here.

1:09.0

Great having you. You've made quite a move going from a content company to a dating app.

1:15.4

Your personal story is interesting, but I first want to ask you, who are your users when

1:20.8

it comes to Tinder?

1:22.0

Is it Gen Z?

1:23.5

Is it millennials?

1:24.8

Is it older folks?

1:26.0

Who's using this app?

1:27.7

Because it originally started, you know, I started my generation with millennials.

1:30.9

But, you know, I imagine the young kids want to date as well.

1:34.3

So who's using it?

1:36.6

Well, there's definitely been a generational shift.

1:39.5

I mean, Tinder started in August 2012.

1:43.1

And so that was right in the heart of millennials.

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