Sam Yagan Quotes

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.

It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.

People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.

I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.