Tinder’s CEO has just given hope to lovelorn singletons everywhere, because apparently the dating app is not all about the hook-up.
We know, we were dubious too.
Anecdotal evidence all points to the contrary: horrendous first-dates, skeezy people and really, how many people do you know with a happy-ever-after Tinder story?
But, at the Web Summit conference in Dublin, CEO Sean Rad said: ‘We just conducted a survey of over 300,000 of our users.
‘What we found was over 80 per cent of people on Tinder are there to find a long-term relationship.’