Tinder has fired its vice president of marketing and communications Rosette Pambakian, as well as other employees who sued Tinder’s parent company Match Group and its controlling shareholder IAC earlier this year. The Verge first broke the news of the firings. A Match Group spokesperson confirmed that a number of Tinder employees have been terminated, […]
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View More Bumble serves countersuit to Match Group, says it’s pursuing an IPOSean Rad, early Tinder employees, sue Tinder owners IAC/Match for billions
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They call it selling out for a reason.
On Tuesday, ten Tinder co-founders and early employees filed a lawsuit against the dating app’s overlords, InterActiveCorp (IAC) and Match Group. The plaintiffs, who include co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, and Jonathan Badeen, allege that the corporate owners deliberately sought to manipulate the valuation of Tinder, in order to lower the pay-out price for these early employees’ stock options, and that it restructured Tinder within Match to deny them future pay-outs.
Gibson Dunn is representing the ten plaintiffs.
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