Tinder CEO Sean Rad dating Dell’s daughter Alexa

Last fall, Sean Rad told a newspaper that he met his girlfriend of four months on Tinder, the same dating app where he serves as CEO. That young lady, who went unnamed, is 20-year-old Alexa Dell, the daughter of beleaguered billionaire Michael Dell. Alexa made headlines in 2012 when she turned up on Rich Kids of Instagram. Rad was 27-years-old as of September.

Rad’s relationship with Dell is no secret. It’s been apparent for months on their public social media accounts. Neither Rad nor Dell immediately responded to requests to verify that they are still involved. Her last photo, from two weeks ago, was of birthday cupcakes for Tinder cofounder Justin Mateen, taken at Tinder’s West Hollywood headquarters.

This is probably not the first and certainly not the last romance between a tech CEO and a tech scion. What’s surprising here is how very little Dell has changed since her costly social media disasters.

Alexa caused a ruckus for Dell Inc. in August, 2012 when her lackadaisical approach to privacy, which jeopardized a family security detail that regulatory filings confirm cost her father $2.7 million a year. The tipping point was an Instagram photo of her brother Zachary Dell en route to Fiji in the family jet in front of a breakfast buffet fit for a Kim Jong Un. It pretty much made the Rich Kids of Instagram brand.

When news of the security risk broke, Alexa shut down her Twitter account and the Instagram photo was taken down. At the time, a Dell spokesman declined to comment on whether it was for security concerns. No matter, because she’s been tweeting as @alexakdell from a public and location-enabled Twitter account and as alexakdell on Instagram. Rad is one her followers. He and Tinder are the main subject of her tweets.

On her LinkedIn profile, Dell says she’s a New York-based intern at Conde Nast’s W magazine slated to graduate from Columbia University next year, although she mostly seems to checking in from L.A.

— by gawker.com