Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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.
People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.
My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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.
I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
