Wes Myers is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Keeper.ai, an experienced matchmaker, and relationship expert. He is working at Keeper to end human loneliness.

How? 

According to Keeper, by giving everyone the opportunity to start a happy, healthy family. Approaching modern dating challenges through a lens of long term relationship formation rather than casual dating.

Keeper uses

• Technology based matchmaking with human expertise to create meaningful, long-term relationships, boasting a 10% success rate for first dates turning into committed relationships
• Keeper focuses on long term, marriage, and family formation rather than casual based dating
• Positioned as a matchmaking service with the aim of helping individuals find love

Wes has authored several thought provoking articles on the Keeper blog including:

• The Science of Dating Preferences: The Data Behind What People Want
• Why You’re Rejecting Your Soul Mate
• You’re Not A Perfect 10
• Why Do People Ghost on Dating Apps?
• Online Dating Clearly Isn’t Working
• And more

In this conversation, Robert & Wes discuss

0:00 - Introduction

2:58 - Dating Apps >$1B revenue but Singles are Burned Out

7:13 - Low vs. High Information Dating Environment, Mobile Dating UX, Image Construction / Branding in Dating

14:10 - Digital Dating Normalization and Incentive Design

18:31 - Why Doesn't Technology Scale Dating Prospects? Bad Filtering

25:42 - What is Matchmaking? Values Alignment Driven Dating.

32:56 - What is Keeper

37:45 - Universal Objective Factors for Matchmaking, Matchmaking Criteria

45:07 - The Seven Deadly Singles; Why You Don't Want to Fit One of These Archetypes

49:12 - Third Spaces, Community in Dating, Loneliness

56:01 - Keeper and Long Term Partnerships; Maybe People Are Happy Single?; Keeper updates

1:03:09 - If Technology Has Created Certain Problems, How Does Adding More Technology Solve the Issue?

More on Wes

• https://www.instagram.com/realwesmyers/
• https://x.com/realwesmyers