> For users, these apps exiting by selling to Match is a bad thing. Yes, I didn't argue against that! I said that Match Group reliably buying upstarts would m

> For users, these apps exiting by selling to Match is a bad thing. Yes, I didn't argue against that! I said that Match Group reliably buying upstarts would make it easy to found and fund these upstarts. > Every site requires enough people using it to make it worthwhile. You can solve user acquisition via VC money; which you could get relatively easily, if Match Group were to reliably buy upstarts. > Anyone starting with an exit in mind has already failed in my book. I am trying to work out why we aren't seeing more startups in this space (VC-funded or otherwise). That question is independent of whether we think they are morally worthy.