Before there were swipes, before there were algorithms, before dating apps became as common as checking the weather — there was Match.com. It’s the platform that looked at the internet in 1995 and saw something nobody else did: a way…
In April 1995, a young entrepreneur named Gary Kremen registered the domain Match.com and launched what would become the most influential dating platform in history. The internet was still in its infancy — most people were using dial-up connections and…
There’s a quiet rebellion happening in the dating world, and it starts with a simple question — why should finding love cost you a fortune? Every other app wants your credit card before you can even say hello. They lock…
In 2003, a Canadian programmer named Markus Frind sat down at his computer in Vancouver and built a dating website in two weeks. He had no investors, no team, and no marketing budget. What he did have was a radical…
In 2007, two Iranian-American entrepreneurs named Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr launched a dating platform that would challenge everything the industry thought it knew about matchmaking. While competitors were building longer questionnaires and more complex personality tests, Zadeh and Mehr…
You’ve been on dating apps before. You’ve filled out the questionnaires, set the filters, swiped until your thumb went numb, and still ended up staring at profiles that had nothing to do with what you actually want. The problem isn’t…
There’s a difference between being Catholic and living Catholic. You know that difference because you feel it every day — in the way you start your mornings, in the choices you make when no one is watching, in the quiet…
In 1999, a group of faithful Catholics in Pennsylvania looked at the emerging world of online dating and saw both a problem and an opportunity. The problem was clear — Catholic singles were being funneled onto secular platforms that had…
Love has no passport, and neither does faith. If you’re a Christian man over 35 who has ever felt that the right person might be living in a different city, a different country, or even a different continent, you’re not…
In 1999, an Australian entrepreneur named Andrew Bolton founded Cupid Media with a vision that was ahead of its time — to create a network of niche dating platforms that would connect people across borders based on shared interests, values,…