Tinder, the Match Group’s popular dating app, has made more than 20 billion connections since Sean Rad launched the app in 2012. Back then the app, which lets you swipe through an endless flow of potential mates, was simply a side project for Rad. Today, Tinder has more than 50 million active users across 195 countries.
Sean Rad
Sean Rad is Founder and CEO of Tinder, a global platform that has brought the world closer together by facilitating more than 11 billion new connections. Known for his entrepreneurial drive and creativity, Sean has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 under 30 and Vanity Fair’s “The New Establishment.” Before founding Tinder in 2012, Sean launched and sold several successful tech ventures similarly focused on enhancing the way people communicate. These include Orgoo, a unified communications platform for consumers and Ad.ly, the largest celebrity endorsement platform for social media. Sean, 30, attended the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.
Kathleen Chaykowski
She is a journalist at Forbes Magazine and Forbes.com where She covers technology. She focuses on social and digital media businesses, especially Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest, and also writes about how technology intersects with society and culture.
Previously, She worked as an interactive news writer at The Wall Street Journal in New York. She has also reported for The Wall Street Journal from Johannesburg and Cape Town; Bloomberg News from New York and San Francisco; the Mail & Guardian, from Johannesburg and Cape Town; and The Chautauquan Daily, from Southwestern New York.
She received a B.A. in English with a self-designed emphasis in Journalism from Stanford, where She served as editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.