Could you imagine loosing your girlfriend to your
own creation? That’s what happened to the founder
of Match.com, who lost his girlfriend to a man she
met on Match.com.
OUCH!
Way back in the infancy of the internet, online
dating was a relatively new thing. Well, everything
online was a new thing. Gary Kremen, remember
that name, was one of the pioneers of the internet
at that time. He created several domains, from porn
to cars to housing. As well as being the founder of
Match.com, which was going to prove to be a
rather bitter endeavor for him.
How the founder of Match.com lost his
girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com
In 1993, Gary Kremen saw potential in online
dating, but the world was yet to be convinced, so
he created Match.com. As people weren’t dating
online, probably due to it having negative
connotations, he worked on a solution to the
problem. What Kremen did was get everyone in the
company to create a profile on the site. This even
included his girlfriend at the time, even though they
were in a relationship. Uh oh. I bet you can see his
problem already developing.
Well it appears as though his idea worked. This
trick helped the company grow the number of users,
but it came at a cost Kremen. His girlfriend met
another man on the site, and left Kremen for him.
But all wasn’t lost. Gary Kremen has said that it
was painful, but it showed him that the site
worked.
Today Match.com is one of the world’s largest and
most popular websites. It is ranked in the top 500
worldwide, and has a total of 21,575,000 members.
To think its success started when the girlfriend of
the founder of Match.com left him for another man.
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