EPISODE · Dec 12, 2023 · 57 MIN
The Business of Dating Ft. Cliff Lerner
from Life of Marin · host Marin Haugo
Marin, the woman who became internet famous for going on 28 dates in February and documenting the process, is sitting down with the founder of the first dating app, Cliff Lerner. Marin and Cliff discuss how he created the first successful online dating app and was the first publicly traded company in the social media space. Cliff’s company, Snap Interactive’s social and online dating apps have attracted over 100 million users. Cliff offers eye opening commentary on the business of dating and the direction he sees it going. He discusses being on the board of Bumble before they sold to Blackstone, and lessons from his tenure in the start-up space. Cliff is the author of the book, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million and currently the CEO of the social app Saturday. First Rounds on Me link https://firstroundsonme.co/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=Marin Huago&utm_campaign=FROME Follow: @ lifeofmarinnyc @ crowdsourcinglove @ saturdayceo
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Marin, the woman who became internet famous for going on 28 dates in February and documenting the process, is sitting down with the founder of the first dating app, Cliff Lerner. Marin and Cliff discuss how he created the first successful online dating app and was the first publicly traded company in the social media space. Cliff’s company, Snap Interactive’s social and online dating apps have attracted over 100 million users. Cliff offers eye opening commentary on the business of dating and the direction he sees it going. He discusses being on the board of Bumble before they sold to Blackstone, and lessons from his tenure in the start-up space. Cliff is the author of the book, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million and currently the CEO of the social app Saturday. First Rounds on Me link https://firstroundsonme.co/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=Marin Huago&utm_campaign=FROME Follow: @ lifeofmarinnyc @ crowdsourcinglove @ saturdayceo
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