Tinder CEO Sean Rad. Photo via Flickr/TechCrunch
Tinder CEO Sean Rad. Photo via Flickr/TechCrunch

Uh-oh, somebody needs some media training…

In an interview with the UK’s Evening Standard, Tinder CEO Sean Rad pretty much sounds like the loudmouth guy at the bar you want to avoid.

Short of name-dropping a supermodel’s identity, he shares this info with the journalist about the woman who he says is ” ‘someone really, really famous’ [who] has been ‘begging’ him for sex ‘and I’ve been like, no.’ ”

After that tidbit, he then goes on to tell the Evening Standard that beauty isn’t enough, and that he’s seeking an “intellectual challenge.”

Picture, if you will, a car crash or a train running off the rails, and you’ll pretty much get the gist of where this next part is going:

“Apparently there’s a term for someone who gets turned on by intellectual stuff,” Rad tells the Evening Standard. “You know, just talking. What’s the word? … I want to say ‘sodomy?’ ”

Rad’s VP of communications and branding is nearby, Rosette Pambakian, and responds: “That’s it! We’re going to be fired,” and “Rad looks confused, ‘What? Why?’ ”

The Evening Standard reporter tells him what it means, and Rad “thumbs his phone for a definition,” realizing his error: “What? No, not that. That’s definitely not me. Oh, my God.”

Mistakes aside, the rest of the interview is still pretty gross.

tinder12In addition to Rad telling the reporter that he’s “addicted” to Tinder, “every other week I fall in love with a new girl,” he also adds that Tinder is not responsible for the so-called hook-up culture that Vanity Fair wrote about with its piece on casual sex in New York City.

Instead, Rad tells the Evening Standard “that feminism has led to it because now women are more independent and pursuing their desires. And that leads to both parties being more sexually active. It’s not because of Tinder.”

“You can’t deny Tinder is what the world wants,” he says in the interview. “We’ve solved the biggest problem in humanity: that you’re put on this planet to meet people.”

Why the interview? Tinder’s parent company, The Match Group, is preparing its IPO, with a current range of $12 to $14 per share, as reported by MarketWatch.

Will the app people joke about using to find their soulmate while sitting on the toilet perform? We’ll see.

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