Writer matches with the infamous AIDS drug guy on Tinder

The guy who jacked up the price of a rare AIDS medication by more than 5000 per cent is looking for love. Or at least just using Tinder.

While cruising through the dating app, New York-based writer Eve Peyse matched with Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who tried to raise the price of the drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 in September.

After getting a bit of small talk out of the way (Peyse: Up to anything fun tonight? Shkreli: Not yet) Peyse asks a blunt question: DTGMAD (Down to give me AIDS drugs?)

That led to an intense and straightforward chat about everything from how Shkreli feels about the media storm (”It’s fine, the media and public don’t want to look past the headline”), people’s reaction to him (”Well they don’t understand it and want to be angry at someone. So someone young and irreverent sounds good”) to if he considers capitalism to be an inherently evil system (”Of course not. Look at the best capitalists giving all their money away”).

Peyser posted the screenshots of their conversation in a tweet, which has more than 1,500 retweets and 2,200 favourites.

The frank chat ends with Peyser asking Shkreli if he sees himself as the Edward Snowden of AIDS drugs, to which he doesn’t respond.

Turns out, it wasn’t meant to be.