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
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I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
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When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.
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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.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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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.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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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.
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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.
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.