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Shar Dubey

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  1. “We do not. Everyone always asked me that. Do they? Yes, I think I just think there's something about it's just seems so different for people who are urbanites. So I, but no, we don't. We don't own farmers. I don't know how big that business is. I can't imagine it's massive given there's not a huge farming communities. But I mean, it is, I do get asked all the time.”

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  2. “We had our European team that was presenting, which was great, and about all the innovation they were focused on in Europe. And then we had the guy who presented that runs a business that has multiple brands. And those brands include, you asked me about our time, which is for 50 plus, black people meet, which is the leading African American dating app. We just launched BLK, which is for young millennial African Americans. And we launched Chispa, which is a big partnership we did with Univision to attract the Latino community. And so where we see opportunity, it's really this portfolio play, but not just the portfolio play in the US, but really at a global level.”

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  3. “Okay, Cub Oh, I mean, this is, I think, one of the proudest sort of last 12 years looking back. Actually, I realize that every time we have the summer party, which the first time I was there, it was one brand, 200 people in Dallas. The summer party just happened two weeks ago. And I think it was 100 degrees outside. And at the time, the guy who was my boss decided we got to have a summer party. Let's do it outside in Texas. He was in New Yorker as though it was a bad idea. And it was just this little, I think I knew every single person's name. And now we've got, you know, like I said, 1,500 people. And we had the last summer party and we didn't have all 1,500 people, but we had about five or six hundred people that came in, about 350 in Dallas. And then we had people coming in from all of the globe. And we do this big all hands. And it's pretty amazing because you've got the guy who runs our Japanese office, which is one of our fastest growing businesses, which is a household name in Japan. So he presented.”

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  4. “That's right, like, what the hell's going on? Yes, I know. It sort of dates me, doesn't it? But anyway, so I was excited because it was the first time I had heard about a business that I was pretty, I thought it was real consumer focused. The heart I was a marketer and I did a ton of PR at the time and non-traditional marketing. And they were making a bet on someone. They just didn't want a typical general management background. They wanted someone that had marketing shops. So that's how I got the job.”

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  5. “So I did the software company for about five years and I ran marketing for the organization. They were darling in the stock market just prior to me being there. That was the beginning of the sort of the downturn at that company. And then when I left, because the company wasn't doing well, I got a call from a recruiter. Actually, she was based out here and we had a lot of friends in common at Stanford and Cal. And she said, look, we're looking for someone who's got really understands consumer internet. And prior to business school, I was doing a ton of marketing for consumer internet businesses, did a lot of work for Microsoft products. And I actually was responsible for the PR launch around Hotmail. And at that point, they were talking about changing the name, which seems crazy. I don't remember, but it's like, how do you change the name hotmails? Like the hottest name you have.”

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  6. “Choices in life, not based on how excited and passionate you are about the path, but really what else it gives you. And at that time, because my mom was sick, I just needed to get closer to Dallas and I wanted to be with her. And it really was one of the best decisions I made. And I have no regrets about doing that because I thought for sure I'd be back on the West Coast. Yeah.”

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  7. “Yeah, well, what happened was I actually started a business in logistics transportation, which we were way ahead of our time with a couple of buddies. We had like no money and I had a kid. And so ultimately, we ended up building this technology, selling it to one of the biggest logistics provider on the East Coast. So we didn't really lose too much money, thankfully. And then my mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the time. And I had this three-year-old now two years later. And I ended up getting a job in Dallas for a small B2B software company, a supply chain software company. And I just, you know, sometimes you just have to make.”

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  8. “And after like days and days of just, you know, really kind of a meltdown, I was like, I just got to figure this out. And then once I figured it out through the months and years, I was like, you know what? If I can figure this out, I think I can figure out pretty much anything thrown at”

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  9. “My ex-husband now told me he was moving back to Tel Aviv. And at that point, I had this little, you know, one-year-old, and it was all me. And I just, I think I had just written my first tuition check, which was like, I don't know, it felt like gazillions of dollars of the time. I do remember exactly to the dollar how much I owed after those two years. But I just didn't, I mean, I was already in. You committed.”

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  10. “You know, I remember it's funny, I went to business school, frankly, because my sister went to Wharton, and her friends were so fascinating. One of them was running the San Francisco operator, just had really cool jobs. And I had been at a PR firm in San Francisco for five years, and I was trying to figure out what my next move was. And they were so interesting. So I thought their lives are so interesting. I should just go to business school because there's going to be opportunities that pop up. So my first day at business school, some guy asked me, what do you want to do? And I said, I don't know. He said, well, I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 50 company. And I looked at himself. Well, that's the dumbest aspiration I've ever heard. I'm like, who thinks that way? And so I certainly wouldn't have thought that I'd be running a, you know, $13 billion tech company at that point. But what I did know is I just had to do something. I was passionate about. And then about a week in, that was day one and a week in, that's when.”

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  11. “Yeah, well, that was business school, but I went to Cal and always really was pretty fascinated with Really, I mean, just getting into people's heads and now hearts, but I left, I was a bit of an adventure and I left Cal and I moved to Israel. So I took a group of teenagers and fell in love with the tour guide, which is such a cliche. Told my parents I was staying in Tel Aviv, which, you know, they were not thrilled about. And it was a really interesting time. I worked for a software company at the time. It was a great technology company, but they needed to be able to translate what they were doing into language, into English language because they were selling in Europe and the US. And so I did a lot of their marketing for them. And at the time, this was in the 90s in Israel when things were really booming. So it was pretty fun to be in that sort of startup nation at the time of truly the startup.”

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  12. “Oh, God. I mean, my grandfather had so many businesses, he had an organic pesticide business. He had a chain of movie theaters in the south, you know, for a long time. He had an air conditioning business. So he would buy startup businesses and did many of them over the course of his life. And then my dad owns a chain of teenage driving schools. Really? Driver's head. Driver's head. Does he get in there?”

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  13. “Well, I can talk about the tech media world, but I'll tell you no one in my family ever that I can remember ever had a boss. I mean, everyone was an entrepreneur and they ran their own business. And I'll tell you when I graduated from business school and I told my grandfather that I got a job. He didn't talk to me for a week because he said, you can always make more money working for yourself than working for someone else. And so that was the mentality I grew up with and was always pretty fascinated with businesses, not because of just the business, but the stories that, I mean, a lot of people love sports. They love the stories of the players. I love the stories of businesses.”

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  14. “Okay, so a strong investment. Yes. So we have a ton to get to, but let's talk a little bit more about you and a little bit more about kind of how you became CEO of match groups. So I mentioned Grew up in Dallas. You went to Berkeley. I think you spent some time in Tel Aviv. Like what is your, give me your kind of 30 second story here? Like, how did you kind of get into the tech and media worlds?”

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  15. “I've been back in Dallas after I finished business school. I went back to Dallas and I've been there since and kind of got lucky enough to be back in consumer internet through the sort of miracle that Match was in Dallas.”

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  16. “I grew up in Dallas, Texas, although I don't have big hair, which you can't see. You cannot hear, and you actually cannot hear, you cannot hear it through my voice. Although every once in a while I'll say y'all. But yes, I grew up in Dallas, but came out to California at 18 to Berkeley, to Cal, Go Bears, and spent a lot of my career on the West Coast and then, you know, a lot of other places.”

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  17. “I'm on the road a lot. We have 1500 employees across 20 offices, and we've got big offices in Vancouver and LA Tinders in LA. We've got offices in Paris and Japan and New York and Dallas. In fact, I got a call 13 years ago that said that match the dating company was based in Dallas, Texas, which I was shocked. I had no idea at the time I was living in Dallas. And so, and they were looking for someone to run a startup within the match business. And so that's how I found out for the first time that Match was in Dallas, Texas.”

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  18. “Well, I live on a plane technically these days. But no, I live in Dallas, which is where the match brand is based. But we've got brands all over the place. So I spent a lot of time on planes and on the West Coast.”

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