Company

Match Group

Type: public
Ticker: MTCH · NASDAQ
Market value: $8B

Match Group is public, listed as MTCH on NASDAQ, in Technology and media.

What it sells: Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, OurTime.

In the language of this map it serves 2 solutions — Dating apps and Later-life dating — which between them relieve 2 human frictions.

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Sells

Dating appsHousehold formation
Later-life datingRetirement

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Find a partner among strangersHousehold formation
Friends and spouse begin to dieRetirement

Trends favouring it

Falling fertility and delayed family formationAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.
Loneliness and the social recessionAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.

Trends pressuring it

Age verification and digital identity infrastructureCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.