Word: fm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...FM:You paid Harvard undergrads to write SparkNotes at first. How much did you pay them? Do you still use Harvard undergrads...
...FM: How was your love life while attending Harvard? SY: We were all math majors, and all super analytical. We definitely weren’t dating experts. We just observed what it was in life that drew people together and made them click, and our approach of observing how people date in the world allowed us to transfer those observations into an online Web site. How they decide whom they like, where they go on dates—we try to transfer this online...
...FM: Do you feel like the Harvard dating scene helped or hindered you for the real world? SY: Our approach is much more about modeling the real world on the Web rather than using the dating expertise we learned, but I wouldn’t say it was the awesome Harvard dating scene that influenced us to start up the Web site...
...FM: Specifically, did you create OkCupid to find some romance for yourself? SY: We were all married, but our employees definitely use it a lot. “I work for OkCupid” is definitely a great pickup line, and apparently the chicks love...
...FM: How can you afford to do a free dating site? And why not charge monthly fees like all the others do? SY: We have 15 employees, while Match.com, etc. have about 300. Although we have a fraction of their workers we have an equally good Web site...