March 1, 2020—11 days before the World Health Organization statement Covid-19 a global pandemic, and the reach of human privacy has become the size of a touchscreen – Sharmistha Dubey has become the CEO of the largest online dating business on the planet. Dubey had spent years climbing into Match Group C-suites, where conference rooms are named after love songs and one of the walls is covered in wedding announcements. Now she controlled a $ 20 billion empire. Some of the top-grossing brands in the industry, including Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Match, were owned by him, as did the love lives of tens of millions of people.
