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Sam Yagan

American

April 10, 1977

Businessman

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Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

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Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

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I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

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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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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.

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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

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