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Inside Tinder: Meet the Guys Who Turned Dating Into an Addiction

But just like with any dating platform — including a good old meeting IRL — everyone has his or her own reason for starting up a conversation. Tinder has more than 10 million users worldwide — in New Zealand more than 5 percent of us are using the app. The Tinder powers-that-be also report there have been at least marriage proposals to date.

A short elevator ride later, as I sat in on a meeting with a group of Tinder executives, it became clear that the quick-change act I had just witnessed.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. User engagement is up, as is interest around new product features, like video calls. More than six years after its launch, Tinder is finally introducing a one-on-one video calling feature that it says will be heavily moderated for content and safety.

At the same time, Tinder CEO Elie Seidman says he and his team are focusing on how to keep young people coming to the app and how they can build digital relationships inside of it, especially as in-person dates slow down. Plus, he explains how Joe Exotic might be more important to a relationship than living near each other. Listen to the whole episode or read the transcript below.

Nilay Patel: How have things changed for Tinder in the midst of all this? The high level is that now more than ever, people want connection. Makes sense: when you get isolated, you want it even more. It depends. We break it into two parts. If you look at the engagement side, what is the entirety of the community doing there, yeah, you see very clear positives around engagement.

Longer conversations, a lot more conversations.