Sam Yagan
Sam Yagan
Sam Yagan is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid. In 2013, he was named to TIME Magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World' list. He is currently the CEO of the e-dating site Match.com...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 April 1977
CountryUnited States of America
companies money moving talent
I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
executive parts questions small stretch
I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
although bit charge enter fee hard ideal maybe people relationship someday success
In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
conversation life meet moment sort time trying
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
hard people propose suggesting super
A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
approach hope industry music
I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
power
I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
dating
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?