{"id":979414,"date":"2025-12-10T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979414"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:03:02","slug":"hinge-ceo-mcleod-stepping-down-to-lead-match-group-backed-ai-dating-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/10\/hinge-ceo-mcleod-stepping-down-to-lead-match-group-backed-ai-dating-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinge CEO McLeod stepping down to lead Match Group-backed AI dating startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Match Group said on Tuesday that Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod will step down to launch Overtone, an AI-powered dating venture backed by the company, signaling a major bet on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Jantos, currently Hinge&#8217;s president and chief marketing officer, will take over as CEO. Jantos has overseen the app&#8217;s expansion into Europe and Latin America and led product initiatives targeting Gen Z users.<\/p>\n<p>Overtone, incubated within Hinge during 2025, will operate as an independent company focused on using AI and voice tools to create connections, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Group said on Tuesday that Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod will step down to launch Overtone, an AI-powered dating venture backed by the company, signaling a major bet on artificial intelligence. Jackie Jantos, currently Hinge&#8217;s president and chief marketing officer, will take over as CEO. Jantos has overseen the app&#8217;s expansion into Europe and Latin America and led product initiatives targeting Gen Z users. Overtone, incubated within Hinge during 2025, will operate as an independent company focused on using AI and voice tools to create connections, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}