Meet some of the Jews who founded the most popular dating and hookup apps in America.

Sean Rad Justin Mateen

One of the main and most important co-founders of Tinder, who created a prototype dating app called “MatchBox", which eventually became Tinder.

One of the other main and most important co-founders of Tinder, who had known Sean Rad since

age 14. Used his personal office to

host the team working on the early

e Served as Tinder’s CEO and development of Tinder. Became its tin ler Chairman at various times from the Chlst Marketing Officer 1986 - company’s inception until 2016.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Involved with the founding and management of Tinder, Largely responsible for Its early adoption through recruiting new users on college campuses. Left in 2014 due to growing tensions and alleged sexual harassment, largely from Justin Mateen, who she had been previously romantically involved with

Launched Bumble in late 2014 as a female-focused and “feminist” dating app. tent on to become the second most popular dating app in America, ater Tinder. In early 2021, b bl she was reported as the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.

According to The Forward, Wolfe Herd’s father is Jewish and mother is Catholic, ‘and she attended a Jewish preschool and a Catholic high schoo!

Joel Simkhai An Israeli-American tech entrepreneur who is the founder and former CEO of Grindr, a social networking and dating app for LGBT people. It has become the largest and most popular gay mobile app in the world.

Simkhai is homosexual, and has two brothers, who are also both gay.

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‘Some info sourced from “Bumble Vs. Tinder: What’s Jewish About The Epic Dating Site War?” by The Jewish Daily Forward.

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