FireStarter

Meet Sam Yagan and OKCupid

Meet Sam at FireStarter, Sunday March 13th from 4-7pm at the Molotov Lounge in Austin.  RSVP here.

Sam Yagan

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer

Sam has spent six years as an entrepreneur, first as Co-founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, Inc., maker of SparkNotes, the world’s leading brand of educational study aids. More recently, he has served as President of MetaMachine, Inc., developer and distributor of the world’s leading P2P file-sharing application, eDonkey.

Sam has also served as Vice-President and General Manager at Delias, Corp., and Vice-President and Publisher at Barnes & Noble, Inc. Sam has a BA in Applied Mathematics & Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

About OkCupid

The best dating site on Earth

OkCupid is the fastest-growing online dating site. We use math to get you dates. It’s extremely accurate, as long as (a) you’re honest, and (b) you know what you want. We are completely free.

Most other matching sites are just glorified personals services; their “matching” systems are nonexistent or overly subjective. We don’t claim to evaluate you perfectly, but we do claim to find someone who claims to fulfill your claimed requirements, exactly.

Here’s a better look into our math-based matching system and how answering Match Questions relates to it.