{"id":115424,"date":"2019-10-20T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/20\/tinder-boss-elie-seidman-if-you-behave-badly-we-want-you-out\/"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:00:55","slug":"tinder-boss-elie-seidman-if-you-behave-badly-we-want-you-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=115424","title":{"rendered":"Tinder boss Elie Seidman: \u2018If you behave badly, we want you out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dating app has become the go-to tool for singles looking for a \u2018hook-up\u2019 rather than a relationship. Its chief executive reckons it can broaden its appeal \u2013 but will have to get tough with some usersSwipe right for \u201cwould like to meet\u201d, left for \u201cwouldn\u2019t\u201d. Seven years after Tinder made choosing a date as simple as flicking your thumb across a smartphone screen, it is by far the most-used dating app in the UK and the US. Downloaded 300m times and with more than 5 million paying subscribers, it is the highest-grossing app of any kind in the world, according to the analysts App Annie. For Americans, apps and online dating are the most common way to meet a partner. \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing responsibility, and an amazing privilege,\u201d says Elie Seidman, Tinder\u2019s 45-year-old chief executive. If he finds it less daunting than others might, that\u2019s because, before he took over Tinder in 2018, he was in charge of OkCupid, the Tinder of the 00s. He has spent much of his working life helping people to find love.\u201cThe vast majority of our employees are energised by that very mission,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re not selling plumbing supplies, right? Obviously, plumbing is really important, but ours is a really noble and exciting mission. So, when we\u2019re taking new risks \u2013 new challenges, new chances \u2013 we know that, if we\u2019re successful, it\u2019s about helping members connect.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/oct\/20\/tinder-boss-elie-seidman-if-you-behave-badly-we-want-you-out\" target=\"_blank\">Tinder boss Elie Seidman: \u2018If you behave badly, we want you out\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dating app has become the go-to tool for singles looking for a \u2018hook-up\u2019 rather than a relationship. Its chief executive reckons it can broaden its appeal \u2013 but will have to get tough with some usersSwipe right for \u201cwould like to meet\u201d, left for \u201cwouldn\u2019t\u201d. Seven years after Tinder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}