## Summary ## Notes - His love story is inspiring, a true connection - You couldn't have even made this up bruhw - It's cool to see how relevant his life was to the mission of the app - Being personally disturbed by people using your app for the wrong intentions ## Highlights - overachiever but troublemaker - college love, kate, complete opposite - kept going back and forth - Complete romantic, just obsessed with finding the one - Started with 24k split alongside someone from google, outsourced to argentina - Hinge, connects to door frame - Hopelessly idealistic but ruthlessly practical - Need to dismantle your argument - Threw a party that required you to download app to get in - App was not accepted last night, started crying - Gained brand as wholesome/marriage-like - Waitlist and launch at big cities - Tinder also blew up same time - Article showcased fuckboy story, felt bad that company values started to change - Another interviewer shared her experience, war photographer and was supposed to rendevouz in paris but forgot number, ended up marrying next person dated, then came across the person and restarted with them - what the fuck - booked a flight to see her, 8 years later, had wedding next month, flights and payments called, then cancelled - Love isn't about a numbers game, it's about vulnerability, connection - You don't find it, you create it - Thoughtful prompts and liking allows for better tastes and more thoughtfulness - usually people just spam like and then filter the matches, but now matches are more intentional - Natural barrier for - Lose 20% of users during sign-up process - More intentional hinge went from 1000 likes to date to 50