This week, I communicate with George Hadjia, the founder and Chief Funding Officer of Bristlemoon Capital, a long-short hedge fund. George publishes common insights on his agency’s weblog, together with a current publish on Match Group, the corporate that operates Tinder and Hinge. The subject of our dialog is the relationship app market and its prospects for development after the tumultuous COVID period.

Amongst different issues, we talk about:

• The influence of COVID on the relationship app market;
• Whether or not shopper attitudes have soured on relationship apps;
• The demographic element to the decline of those apps, and the way engagement varies by age;
• The higher restrict on how massive anyone app can get;
• How defensible these scaled relationship app companies are;
• The match-making dilemma;
• Whether or not promoting is a chance.

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