In ‘Mom-Versus-the-Machine’ Matchup, Blind Date App Serves Up Better Dates, OkCupid CEO Says

Sam Yagan, the CEO and co-founder of OkCupid, is trying to persuade Internet daters to go back to blind dating. It may seem counterintuitive, but he's betting that the blind date app his company launched today will prove that a machine algorithm can do better than users’ moms and nosy aunts at finding them a date.

Sam Yagan, the CEO and co-founder of OkCupid, is trying to persuade Internet daters to go back to blind dating. It seems counterintuitive.

Asked if he’d ever had a fun blind date, Yagan said “Well, no, because they were set up by my mom.”

He’s betting that the blind date app his company launched today will prove that a machine algorithm can do better than users’ moms and nosy aunts at finding them a date.

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