Hinge CEO Justin McLeod insists dating app does not have ‘attractiveness score’
NY Post
Hinge’s CEO insisted that the dating app doesn’t have an “attractiveness score” despite mounting complaints that the online dating application only supplies a stream of subpar selections.
In an interview with Fortune Magazine shared to YouTube, Hinge chief Justin McLeod was asked about the influx of users complaining that “they’re getting matches with people who they wouldn’t necessarily meet with or talk to in real life.”
The interview referenced an unhappy singleton who said they were being shown candidates that “looked like they sneaked onto the earth” on an app that “is so deeply focused on compatibility.”
McLeod dodged answering the question directly with a long-winded response that said “matchmaking is hard” and “dating is very hard.”
“We don’t really have an attractiveness score,” McLeod ultimately said, adding that such a model would hurt the company’s expansion.
“When we help people get on more dates, we grow faster, and people tell their friends more,” McLeod told Fortune. “If we were to trade that off by limiting your experience [or] by getting you to just pay more money, that wouldn’t be good for our overall long-term trajectory.”
