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Tinder co-founder suspended over sexual harassment claims

on Jul 1, 2014 | 0 comments

By Natalie Mortimer

Dating app Tinder is facing a law suit after one of its co-founders claimed she was sexually harassed while working at the start-up.

In a lawsuit filed yesterday (30 June) Whitney Wolfe, the company’s former vice president of marketing, blasted the working environment at Tinder describing it as “frat-like” and claimed that the app’s chief marketing officer, Justin Mateen, repeatedly called her a whore in front of colleagues, according to the Telegraph.

The 24 year old also claims that she was stripped of her co-founder title because she was a “young female” and that being so “devalued” the company. Wolfe also Read full story ›

Source: The Drum