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OkCupid; Hinge; Match Group; Tinder; Plenty of Fish; Samantha Lee/Insider
Match Group owns Tinder, OkCupid, and every other big online dating site in the US — except Bumble.
Bumble's CEO, an ex-Tinder executive, sued Match Group's parent company for discrimination in 2014.
Here's how Match Group went from a failing dating site for Boomers to the country's largest online dating conglomerate.
Online dating can be messy. The companies that run online dating can be messier.
Match Group, which started as one lonely Stanford Business School graduate's attempt to build a less embarrassing way to find love online in the '90s, has turned into a titan that owns nearly every US dating site.