VOGUE - Sharmistha Dubey, CEO of Match Group, won Tech Leader of the Year at Vogue Women of The Year 2021. Dubey grew up in Jamshedpur in the 1970s and '80s, when the internet and technology as we know them both today didn't exist. Her father was a professor of mechanical engineering and he encouraged her to get an engineering degree at IIT, where she was the lone woman with hundred men. Dubey later saved up to apply for a master's degree at Ohio State University, and after stints at various technology companies, she landed at Match in 2006, as director of product for an online dating start-up called Chemistry. In 2017, Dubey raised many eyebrows at Tinder when she suggested it introduce a feature called Likes You, to show users which profiles had already liked them before they swiped left or right on them. Dubey knew that this was a feature people would pay for and cleverly offered it only on Tinder Gold. Tinder blew up in popularity nearly overnight and that feature directly fuelled its rise into the billion-dollar company that it is today. Dubey was named CEO of Match Group in early 2020.
by Parizaad Khan Sethi
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