Dateworking with Steve Dean

#4 - One algorithm to help 50 million people find love (ft Tom Quisel, former CTO @ OkCupid)

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In this episode, Tom Quisel and I discuss: 

  • How Tom got his start working at OkCupid, one of the most popular dating sites in the world 
  • The efforts Tom and the OkCupid team went through to help reduce bias in dating apps 
  • Experiments OkCupid has done to better understand just how superficial modern daters are 
  • OkCupid's discovery that we are, in fact, absurdly superficial 
  • The surreal story of how I introduced Tom to his fiancé. 
  • Tom’s post-OkCupid career in healthtech and IoT, using apple watch and fitbit data to predict conditions like diabetes and multiple sclerosis  
  • Tom's subsequent foray into the cryptosphere, building products that empower individuals to send cross-border payments without those exorbitant fees, enabling low income individuals to more easily send money to their relatives in other countries 
  • Ideal strategies for sending first messages in online dating 
  • Strategies for dating in small towns vs. in cities 
  • Whether Facebook's new dating app dating will make a meaningful difference in the dating industry  
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