June 23, 2025
Hinge’s CEO said the subsidiary operates largely independently from Match Group
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In an interview with Nilay Patel of the Verge’s Decoder podcast, Hinge CEO said they remain an independent company.
“Up until recently, and still today, the company operates pretty independently,” he said. We’re in New York. We pretty much have our own space. We have our own product teams, our own engineering teams, our own marketing teams that operate very independently. We share learnings across the platform. We use shared services like accounting and legal and things like that.
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He said that they will likely launch an alternative payment system (other than that of Apple) at the end of the year, which would result in reduced prices, higher margins or more investment.
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He thinks the new payment system rates should be reduced to between 5% to 10% from 15% to 30%.