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Jackie Jantos, Hinge CEO: Gen Z struggle to connect

Jackie Jantos, Hinge CEO: Gen Z struggle to connect

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Sean Farrington speaks to Jackie Jantos, Hinge CEO, about dating in today’s digital world

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Sean Farrington speaks to Jackie Jantos, CEO of popular mobile
dating app Hinge, about finding romance in today’s
rapidly-changing digital world.

Launched back in 2013, US-based Hinge has steadily grown to
become one of the world’s biggest mobile dating apps. As of 2025,
there were 30 million users on the platform looking for romance
all over the world - up from half a million just 10 years before.

Hinge encouragingly bills itself as the ‘app to be deleted’, and
unlike many competitor apps, its focus is on creating real
interactions - for example, encouraging users to like photos or
prompts - rather than quickly swiping left or right.

In a crowded industry worth billions of dollars, the app, owned
by the American dating giant Match Group, has a difficult
balancing act to maintain. It has to innovate to attract new
users and make a profit, while also ensuring their users find
romance and so do not have to keep using the app.

Thank you to the Big Boss Interview team for their help in making
this programme. The Interview brings you conversations with
people shaping our world, from all over the world. The best
interviews from the BBC, including episodes with music icon Chaka
Khan, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and entrepreneur Emma
Grede. You can listen on the BBC World Service on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at 0800 GMT. Or you can listen to The
Interview as a podcast, out three times a week on BBC Sounds or
wherever you get your podcasts.

Presenter: Sean Farrington Producer: Jeevan Nerwan and Ben Cooper
Editor: Damon Rose

Get in touch with us on email TheInterview@bbc.co.uk and use the
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(Image: Jackie Jantos smiles as she looks to the side. She has
brown hair and glasses and wears a black jumper. Credit: Stuart
C. Wilson/Getty Images)