Recode Decode: Tinder parent company Match Group prepares for battle with Facebook

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mandy Ginsberg, the CEO of Match Group, talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how her company became dominant in online dating — it owns sites and apps like Match.com, Tinder and OKCupid — and how it's dealing with competitors like Bumble and Facebook. Ginsberg says she still admires and respects Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe, even as the two companies have traded lawsuits and barbed words in the press. And while she knows it would be foolish to write off Facebook as a competitor, she argues that younger consumers, at least, don't want Mark Zuckerberg & co. meddling in their dating lives. Ginsberg also addresses one of the most common questions she gets: Do dating app companies have an incentive to keep customers longer by keeping them single? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Zipper Cruder, which is the presenting sponsor of Recode Decode and the smartest way to hire.
0:05.1	Running a business is full of tough calls, one of the biggest hiring.
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0:20.5	and invites them to apply to your job.
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0:35.7	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large at Recode.
0:38.3	You may know me as someone who would definitely swipe left on you,
0:41.4	but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:46.9	Today, I'm passing the microphone to Recode Senior Social Media Editor Kurt Wagner,
0:51.1	who interviewed the CEO of Match Group, Mandy Ginsburg.
0:54.6	Take it away, Kurt.
0:56.4	Thank you, Cara.
0:57.4	I'm here in San Francisco with Mandy Ginsburg, who's the CEO of the Match Group.
1:01.9	Mandy, welcome.
1:03.0	Thank you. Thanks for having me.
1:04.3	Yeah, thank you for coming to San Francisco because you're not actually,
1:07.3	you don't live in San Francisco.
1:08.8	I learned you live in Dallas.
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