How Rad: 'Sodomy' features in Match.com’s IPO

Tinder CEO's embarrassing mistake won't go away - it's now immortalised in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission

When Tinder chief executive Sean Rad gave an interview in which he confused the word "sodomy" with the word "sapiosexual" (a term for only being attracted to intelligent people), he probably thought that was the worst thing that would come out of speaking to the Evening Standard newspaper.

Unfortunately, Rad was speaking immediately before Tinder's parent company Match.com went public, launching on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York. And in the runup to an initial public offering, a US company is bound by strict requirements over what information they can communicate to the public.