Tinder CEO Elie Seidman on finding love during the pandemic

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tinder and its parent company Match Group have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well, all things considered. User engagement is up, as is interest around new product features, like video calls. More than six years after its launch, Tinder is finally introducing a one-on-one video calling feature that it says will be heavily moderated for content and safety. At the same time, Tinder CEO Elie Seidman says he and his team are focusing on how to keep young people coming to the app and how they can build digital relationships inside of it, especially as in-person dates slow down.Seidman joins Vergecast host Nilay Patel and Verge senior reporter Ashley Carman for a chat about the future of the platform, how it’ll keep people safe over video calls, and what happens to its Tinder U initiative that it’s focused on for years. Plus, he explains how Joe Exotic might be more important to a relationship than living near each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.
0:03.4	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:05.9	We're making a new show.
0:07.8	Have a nice future.
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0:13.4	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:17.6	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:21.0	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face about the challenges they're creating
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2:50.4	You're seeing increases of Tinder during all this.
2:59.9	Yeah, it's kind of ebbed and flowed.
3:02.2	We break it into two parts.
3:04.0	There's the business side of Tinder, the financial engine, and then there's the engagement
3:10.6	side.
3:11.6	The majority of people who are using Tinder and any given day, the majority of the community
3:15.8	globally is not paying for it.
3:18.1	It's basically an entirely free product for them.
3:20.6	A small subset of them are paid members, people who are paying for premium features.
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