Raya
product on 6 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes · said 31 times in 15 episodes since 2021
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Mark Pincus invested in Raya after cold emailing info@rayaapp.com
“I invested in the company. I cold mailed them, and I, info at Raya app, and said, I use your app every day. I want to invest.”
Mark Pincus rates dating apps 1/10 and Raya 3/10
“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”
Coogan: Exclusive social networks must launch with elites before moving down-market
“This Araya Ask LinkedIn, like, you have to be super connected. This is something that someone, like, some, like, the all-in podcast, or someone who's, like, really connected can start, because, like, the whole thing is, like, you're gonna, you're just gonna be…”
Goldstein: Dating app success comes from carving out niches, not mechanism
“The way that you would start a new dating app is you find a niche, you find a, an, a specific group of people, and then maybe there's some special mechanism, but the group of people matters more than the mechanism. Right? Any dating app you're on, like Raya is…”
Isenberg: Parents will spend $500/month on kids before spending on themselves
“Like, people are willing to spend 500 dollars a month on kids, and less so 500 dollars a month on themselves, unless it helps them get a date, i.e. Raya.”
Isenberg calls Pear Ring's physical anti-dating app model 'brilliant'
“Like this is the complete opposite of Tinder, Hinge, Raya, all these dating, dating apps, literally a physical product that you pay for versus a free product, like a Tinder or something like that. And I just think it's absolutely brilliant.”