If you think the people you see on Tinder are shown to you randomly, you're mistaken. As part of a profile of the company's CEO Sean Rad , Fast Company writer Austin Carr was given access to his hidden "desirability" score on Tinder , which the company assigns to every person who uses its dating app. People who work at Tinder call it the "Elo score," which is a term used by chess players to rank their skill levels, according to Carr.
It took us two and a half months just to build the algorithm because a lot of factors go into it. Tinder not only uses your score to match you with people who have similar scores, but it also uses the info " to study what profiles are considered most alluring in aggregate," Carr writes.
Be sure to read Carr's full stories on Tinder's polarizing CEO and how the app's matching algorithm works. Join the conversation about this story Β». Joel Simkhai is a single, gay man living in Los Angeles, and he's the king of Grindr. Well, technically, he's the CEO and founder of the dating app for gay and bisexual men.
In , he launched Grindr out of a "selfish desire" to meet more gay men. More r ecently, he sold a majority stake of Grindr to a Chinese gaming company. Simkhai, still a very regular user of his own app, took us around LA last summer.
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