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Match Pays Tinder Co-Founders $441 Million to End Lawsuit

Match Pays Tinder Co-Founders $441 Million to End Lawsuit

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Match has settled a lawsuit brought forward by Tinder co-founders who claimed the company cheated them out of billions of dollars' worth of stock options. Tinder's former CEO and dot.LA investor Sean Rad, former CMO Justin Mateen, and others brought the case against Match, seeking $2 billion. Today, they settled for $441 million. Read more >>

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The $441 million lawsuit settlement is a significant sum for Match, which had $523 million in cash and short-term investments on hand as of Sept. 30.

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