Dating Apps

“Dating apps are a mess and probably not durable in their model.”

“I personally think that the apps are Negative ROI for people's dating outcomes. And it's primarily because they're optimizing for the wrong things.”

“So something like eight to 10% of the guys get 80% of the dates.”

“And the scary stat I saw, I think you referenced, is that in order to get one coffee, a man of average attractiveness on a dating app has to swipe right or try and connect with 200 women to get one coffee.”

“Like the business models have so much gravity that they have absolutely no incentive to change the model, even though the, it's very clear they're just, they're like hemorrhaging brand by the day. And even though they're hemorrhaging brand by the day, they are…”

“No, no, I actually think technology, per usual, has given people exactly what they want, right? It just happens that, like, the efficient market for sex is, like, extremely bad for almost everyone.”

“So I think we're having this issue with Gen Z where they don't necessarily want to be on apps. They want to be meeting people in real life, but they don't have The social skills to do it. And so there's this huge problem with the younger daters that I talked t…”

“I do think that the future of dating is with no swiping.”

“80% of the overtures toward men go to 10% of the male population, and those are not the right guys. Those are a lot of dark triads. The dark triads are the ones who show the best in every format, including in, in, in dating profiles.”

“My take is dating apps are a one out of 10 experience, and Rai is a three out of 10, so I say it sucks three times less, and it's because there's a human curation level”

“So, it's basically cheap to launch a dating app, whereas it used to cost a couple million bucks.”

“All these other products, their marketing message Somewhat now, but especially when they're starting, was we are Tinder, but we have this one little feature. Yeah. I'm like, that's not really a company. I mean, like, that's, where's the vision in that? Where i…”

“The reason dating feels icky to people is the same reason why like the app that helps people hang out when they're bored doesn't work is because when it's too on the nose, you know, It's too direct, right? Like I am single. I'm on a dating app to date. There's…”

“In generally speaking, dark triads, they present very favorably. They're very successful in the dating market. For example, they do unbelievably well on the apps. They do really well on early or, you know, The first and second dates. They do incredibly well be…”

“And so you find that 59% of relationships start on the apps now.”

“But no one wants to meet on an app anymore. No one wants to meet their future partner on an app. They want to go be not so much at a bar hanging out meeting, or I met Kevin at a wedding. They want to be doing something they love and finding love at the same ti…”

“The algorithms have been proven. I've seen many YouTube videos and I've experienced myself. The algorithm has been proven to kind of force men to pay in order to feel like you're going to get any sort of attention.”

“So I said women must make the first move. This is going to reduce harassment. This is going to reduce bad behavior. Women are not going to be spammed. And women will be empowered and encouraged to actually be in the driver's seat.”

“There is no argument that, that dating apps have become, you know, the front runner In how, you know, people between a certain age group meet. And that number is only expected to grow because of a few things.”

“When you think about the power of technology, how it essentially lets you bypass fate and hack it, you can wield the power of meeting who you want to meet. You can filter people. You can layer your search criteria in ways that you just cannot do in the real wo…”

“A huge chunk of survey respondents are Of people that are single and want to be in a relationship, but don't use a dating app yet. They don't do it because they think they'll be bad at it. They think that they don't know how to date. They think that they're no…”

“The next thing will be dating apps, like why all the dating apps don't have an LLM for like, write me something quirky and slightly flirtatious based on this profile. Go. Clearly that's like the next use case.”

“I think it's also partially because it's so built on top of, it's basically like the live streaming apps there are built on top of dating apps more or less, right? Or like they go hand in hand with that. And so there's a lot of flirtation and with flirtation, …”

“And usually on average dating apps are about like 70% active users are men, 30% women.”