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• bullish assessment Unattributed

  we have some meaningful interest

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  you must have massive massive interest from investors now it's very rare that a product takes off this fast

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  we increased their Viewership by 30% from the previous year and and that that was like directly correlated to Tinder because we their their season there was a 30% increase from their season opening to the next episode when in and in between that we had the Tinder campaign

• neutral prediction Unattributed

  we're we're we're focused on that and we heard about virtual goods from Dave is virtual goods and being a premium member something that would work in Tinder enhanced profile whatever you know we're not we're not there being in the space that we're in there's a variety of ways we could we could monetize um people are definitely I like to think when it when the value proposition is introducing you to somebody new that you could create a relationship with that people are willing to pay for that uh

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  I think I actually think that that social validation is a more stronger uh uh uh area of identity than actually you know you know physical Identity or or or credit card credit card or whatever I think I think if we could do more uh like Facebook has to um understand sort of your graph and understand your behavior within Tinder and the different touch points that you have there's all these signals that we can collect and sort of come back and decide you know not only how valuable you are to certa

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  the the the fascinating thing is there's all these unique use cases that people are creating for Tinder um and you know partially were we uh you know we have the singular Focus but there's all these little byproducts that we're closely watching uh out of curiosity to see if one of them might make sense for a broader feature that we might create uh but there's all these you know interesting use cases friendship business connections local businesses trying to connect with their customers

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  there's a lot of businesses local businesses that are creating Tinder profiles trying toch yeah they're trying to match with people in order to which that's actually something we haven't killed because I'm actually curious to see where that goes so I'm a local bar this is my uh host or Hostess and they're saying yes to everybody saying hey meet me at this bar yeah I happen to be the host or the bottle service person or it's the business or it's the manager trying to connect with people in the ar

• neutral assessment Unattributed

  oh there a lot of spam bots in the system yeah we're we're getting hit really hard by spam um but but luckily we got a great team that's that's responding

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  safer I think nothing is fully safe of course the world is not safe The World Is Not Safe Tinder is safer for a variety of reasons one uh we allow you to to only talk to the people that you have an interest in uh so you could sort of filter through the audience and you're not as exposed like I like I mentioned at the beginning of this conversation so if you're only saying I like one out of 25 people yeah you're limiting your exposure You' have to pick the psychotic crazy killer exactly or you co

• neutral fact_claim Sean Rad

  we break our entire experience into pre-match and postmatch... helping you categorize organize and make more sense out of you know your history of matches over time

• neutral assessment Sean Rad

  we get a very few number of requests related to safety... the requests that we do get have less to do with Tinder and more to do with the circumstances

• bullish prediction Sean Rad

  we're launching a whole new experience... visual experience is really going to evolve

• bullish assessment Sean Rad

  we're growing internationally at a pretty surprising rate actually it's all organic

• neutral assessment Sean Rad

  scalability has been our primary focus right now

• bullish fact_claim Sean Rad

  in New York City... 620,000 profile ratings in one hour, 18,000 matches, 50,000 messages... 20,000 requests hitting the server every second

• bullish fact_claim Sean Rad

  we have 200 million matches... growing at 20 million a week

• neutral fact_claim Sean Rad

  Android is about one-third of new signups... trending to be about 50/50

• bullish fact_claim Sean Rad

  day one that we launched it our organic registrations went up by like 70% every day

• bullish fact_claim Sean Rad

  we've had 20 billion ratings in that time and that's growing at an exponential rate... now we're doing 1 billion a week

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  the social graph is a powerful tool to help you discover new people

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  we let you go as deep as a mile right yeah as close as a mile

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  the predominant result of these matches is dating or romance but what we found is there's a lot of people who are moving to cities and then using Tinder to meet friends right or just make friends in that City or um there's constant emails that we get uh uh about people telling us that they've created business relationships on Tinder

• bullish assessment Sean Rad

  it's giving control back to both the pursuer and the person who's being pursued and saying you're not going to feel like you're putting yourself out there and and as as somebody's being pursued you don't need to feel overwhelmed

• neutral fact_claim Sean Rad

  we're taking the people around you and we're prioritizing them based on their relevance to you

• bullish prediction Sean Rad

  it'll be a joke on uh Conan O'Brien this year

• bullish assessment Sean Rad

  it gives control to both sides of the equation makes everyone feel comfortable and it has a really unique behavioral hook

• bullish assessment Sean Rad

  it starts every relationship at sort of a heighten level

• bullish assessment Sean Rad

  what Tinder does uh is where our goal is to overcome some of those barriers those physical and social barriers to you you meeting new people

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  this is just two of the most um important social companies right now

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  two of the hottest absolute lightning uh in a Bottle apps currently on the market of course Tinder

• neutral fact_claim Christian Rudder

  Tinder is is a little bit more casual, Match is a little bit less casual. And so, uh And OkCupid is in between. ... And so, Tinder, those curves move even further apart.

• bullish assessment Christian Rudder

  I think honestly Tinder has really been um has has kind of knocked down or destroyed that last bit of stigma around meeting someone through a device or through a computer. ... and that that kind of eliminated it, I think, permanently. ... And I think it's a great uh service. Um and I think it's just it's introducing people to I mean, to get busy, it's just kind of growing the segment, you know? So, it's been very good for us.

• bullish assessment Joel Simkhai

  Tinder came out uh and they actually iterated and they made some very smart decisions right they the mutual match uh the Facebook import uh some other key aspects of it that we you know for us for men don't really matter but for the comfort of women uh that Facebook import is so important right uh gay guys we don't care as much so they they they evolved on the concept uh and I think made it made it acceptable and comfortable for women

• neutral assessment Jason Calacanis

  the most important thing in tinder who knows but it might be that actual matches and people starting a conversation in tender are more important

• bullish assessment Kim Kaplan

  And then you look at Tinder and they're a design-driven organization and they do design really well.