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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.