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letsdothis3 ago

Eric Klien - Match.com https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/online-dating/11404044/Inside-the-worlds-biggest-dating-agency.html

It started out as the pet project of a cryogenics enthusiast and grew into the granddaddy of a billion dollar industry. Sarah Rainey visits Match.com to find out what the 20-year-old online dating behemoth has learned about love.

Match.com is not only the most popular dating website on the planet; it’s the granddaddy of them all. This year, it celebrates its 20th anniversary – marking two decades since a little start-up suggested that Cupid’s arrow might strike through a screen.

Today, one in five new relationships and one in six marriages are estimated to begin online. The global online dating market is worth at least a billion dollars.

..Match.com was a flare from the future. It promised a clever algorithm, which used character traits and interests to pair users with their perfect partner. Within six months, 100,000 people had registered.

..In 1993, Klien sold his questionnaire and the domain name Match.com so he could focus on a new mission. It was called the Atlantis Project and it aimed to build an independent city called Oceania in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.

letsdothis3 ago

Eric Klien https://www.facebook.com/eric.klien

https://imgur.com/a/BnjmXcY President (title) at Lifeboat Foundation; Works at Singularity Network; Numerous jobs for KurzweilAI at Kurzweil Educational Systems; Worked at Humanity Plus; Engaged to Genevieve O'Hagan

letsdothis3 ago

Profiles on Klien's FB:

Diana Chernoff Pate connected to David Tokar, Advisory Board at Institute of Spiritual Sciences https://www.facebook.com/devadude

Works at ROYAL HOUSE OF PORTUGAL - PORTUGAL, Worked at Glorioso Império do Brasil

San Francisco Bay Area . Alumni of Stanford. Previously worked for TWA