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Sam Yagan
Co-founder, OkCupid
Sam Yagan is co-founder and CEO of OkCupid.com, the fastest-growing free online dating service. Yagan was previously co-founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, maker of SparkNotes, and president of MetaMachine, which developed P2P file-sharing application eDonkey. He has also been vice president and general manager at Delias, and vice-president and publisher at Barnes & Noble.
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Using information gleaned from the millions of profiles in its system, OkCupid has determined that specific things can help (and hurt) your online dating mojo.
3 min
The differences between online and in-person dating have important and far-reaching implications for the way we think about ourselves and each other.
7 min
Analyzing OkCupid’s vast store of behavioral data yields some interesting—and perhaps counterintuitive—advice for online daters.
5 min
As a result of its dataset, OKCupid is in a unique position to comment on dating and relationships in our culture.
3 min
With marketplace businesses, you want to make entry and exit as efficient as possible. Putting up a pay wall is the exact opposite of what you should be doing
7 min
OkCupid records and publishes data on the interactions, profiles, and preferences of its members. This information has plenty of implications for the social-scientific quest to understand human behavior.
24 min
A conversation with the co-founder of OKCupid.