Tinder CEO says he likes smart girls — but proves he doesn't know what 'sodomy' means in cringeworthy interview

Tinder co-founder and CEO Sean Rad
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Tinder CEO Sean Rad's latest interview was a bit of a PR catastrophe. Speaking to the U.K.'s Evening Standard shortly before Tinder's parent company, Match Group, goes public Wednesday evening, Rad was far from tight-lipped about his personal life.

In addition to revealing the number of women he's slept with (a "modest 20") and talking extensively about his mother, Rad tells an extended braggy anecdote involving a model that ends up proving he may not be quite sure what the word "sodomy" actually means:

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