If you asked a decade ago, few people would have expected online dating to have grown to where it is today. And yet, here we are in 2021 with Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH) trading at a market cap of $43 billion, one of the largest companies in the United States. Online dating, especially through mobile applications, has grown like wildfire over the past five to 10 years and has made long-term shareholders of Match Group very wealthy in the process.