On March 1, 2020—11 days earlier than the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a world pandemic, and the scope of human intimacy shrank to the measurement of a touchscreen—Sharmistha Dubey turned the chief govt of the largest internet dating firm on the planet. Dubey had spent years climbing by the C-suites at Match Group, the place the convention rooms are named after love songs and one of the partitions is roofed in wedding ceremony bulletins. Now she had management of a $20 billion empire. Some of the most worthwhile manufacturers in the enterprise, together with Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Match, had been hers to command, as had been the love lives of tens of thousands and thousands of folks.
