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- To the top. There's an adage that most executives who make it to the C-suite acknowledge is true: It's lonely at the top. Becoming a CEO often means standing alone, no longer able to complain, debate, or dream big alongside anyone at work in a true "no-agenda conversation."
Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg, two former CEOs of Match Group, are rare corporate leaders to make it to the top without sacrificing that kind of friendship at work. The pair met more than 20 years ago at a dotcom-era tech company in Texas before jumping to the online dating giant Match.com in its early days. They climbed the corporate ladder in tandem, charting career trajectories that culminated in serving back-to-back CEO tenures at Match Group between 2018 and 2022.
