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    Tinder Co-Founders Sue App's Owners For At Least $2B, Saying They Were 'Cheated'

    The lawsuit also says the parent companies "whitewashed" sexual harassment claims against an executive carrying out a plan to hide Tinder's full value. The companies blast the suit as "sour grapes."
    by Colin Dwyer Aug 14, 2018 3 minutes
    The logo for the Tinder app, seen on a mobile phone screen in London in November 2016.

    Tinder's co-founders, along with eight other current and former executives, have slapped the popular dating app's owners with a massive lawsuit. In the suit filed Tuesday in New York, the Tinder employees past and present say the companies that own the app deliberately undervalued it to swindle them out of the money they were owed.

    And that is no small sum, according to founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen and and its subsidiary Match Group, the company that owns Tinder and dating sites .

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