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Sean Rad: Tinder enforced a rule to redesign the entire app yearly
“When I was there, when the team was there, we had a rule that every year we had to redesign the entire product because we didn't want people to get bored and stagnant, and we didn't want to become complacent as a team.”
Sean Rad: Tinder banned employees from using terms like dating or marriage
“We actually had a rule. You were not allowed to say dating at Tinder. You were not allowed to call Tinder a dating app. You're not allowed to say marriage because we weren't about that.”
Sean Rad: Tinder had higher user retention than social media platforms
“And by the way, we have fucking phenomenal retention. You know, we had retentive powers beyond social media platforms.”
Swipe Ventures aims to acquire or invest in potential Tinder disruptors
“So part of what's the goal of swipe ventures is, is to think about what that next shift is and to make sure that we are either acquiring the next great platform that could disrupt us or that we're building it or, you know, we're making an investment in what we…”
Tinder funded a USC college party requiring app downloads for entry
“So we told her, we're like, look, we'll, we'll pay for the party. We'll throw the party. But in exchange under one condition you have to do it at another location. So we shuttled all the students to another location where we had a bigger venue and we can invit…”
Sean Rad predicts user interfaces will shift to predictive answer engines
“So I think what ends up happening over time as technology gets better is that We enter a world where the consumer has to do less work to get the result. And then I think as a result, interfaces are going to start to shift from interfaces where I input informat…”
Sean Rad predicts AI and AR will make Tinder simpler
“And then I would say on a five-year horizon, it would be to continuously make Tinder even more simple. And I know that that sounds crazy because Tinder is already very simple, but I think as technology gets better, as the ways we interact with, as AI and AR co…”