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“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.”

“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.”

“And by the way, we have fucking phenomenal retention. You know, we had retentive powers beyond social media platforms.”

“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…”

“I mean, we've created over fifty billion matches, probably more marriages than any platform in history, more hookups, more friendships.”

“Like, for me, I, like, we had, I mean, we had people who started a Tinder as an intern, and within a few months ended up running an entire team.”

“I think businesses that are creating experiences in the real world for us to come together are very good ideas because we talked about this. I think more than ever we are craving experiences Real world experiences with friends and that space hasn't really been…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“I remember in the early days at eight p.m., Tinder would just stop working for everyone because we had so many users flooding the system and we just, we couldn't rebuild the system fast enough to sustain the scale.”

“And I think in total we texted 500 people. Over the course of a few days We had, I think it was like, 700 signups.”

“My parents came here from Iran, Iranian Jewish. They built a, they had a successful business, lost it all. They had to basically flee the country when it, you know, Jews were being persecuted. And my dad came here met my mom here, but he came here with like 20…”

“Six years by the time we IPL was I think.”

“I had a moment where someone asked me if I could fix a printer. Like, I think they thought I was the IT person. I actually ended up fixing the printer. And then they found out I was the CEO and literally everyone was fucking with him.”