Do you love love? I actually do love love. I love love. Everyone who knows me knows

that about me. I am obsessed with setting people up. I've only had one success in my

life, but I'm very proud of that success. They're married.

That's our colleague, heard on the street columnist, Laura Foreman. She has another love,

reporting on dating apps. For this particular podcast, I did canvas my friends to ask if

they could describe their dating app experience in five words or less, like what would they

say about them? Yeah, what did they say?

Ready? Fun for about five seconds? No, just no. A waste of dopamine, quantity not quality,

deluded to random, time consuming takes commitment, an addiction, and but here's the best. Worth

it all, I guess, because I met my fiance.

Dating apps have exploded in the last decade. Three and ten adults in the US say they've

used one, and it's grown to a multi-billion dollar industry. But now, dating apps are going

through a bit of a dry spell. Their stocks are falling and revenue has flatlined. Are investors

losing interest? Yeah, they're definitely losing interest. They're breaking up with dating

apps. They're breaking up with dating apps. Very good, Kate.

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Leinbach. It's

Tuesday, February 14th.

Coming up on the show, dating apps. Have we reached peak swipe?

It might be hard to find love, but it isn't hard to find a dating app. There are a lot

of them.

Hinge, tinder, grinder, bumble, plenty of fish. Okay, cupid, pairs, fruits. Fruit? Yeah, fruits.

Fruits is great. It's frugianzy. It's for intention. So you pick a fruit, I don't know,

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