eHarmony

“So about a quarter of all the marriages from online dating had met on eHarmony.”

“We have this data on about forty million users who have registered on eHarmony you know, since the beginning, and we know all these attributes about them”

“We ask actually about 150 questions these days, which give us a very good snapshot of the personalities of people.”

“Our workhorse is Wopal Wabbit, up there on the right, which came out of Yahoo Research.”

“Ah, so eHarmony has about 200 people in Santa Monica. We have a few offices around the world, and in terms of technology, we have about 50% tech, but still, like, a lot of people are building the site, infrastructure, and so on, so matching is about twenty-ish…”

“And we only introduce them if they fall into the upper quartile. If there is a very high probability that they will be in the upper quartile in terms of satisfaction.”

“The highest probability of communication between two people is when the height difference is between four to eight inches, when the male is four to eight inches taller.”

“One of these dimensions that's quite predictive is obstreperousness.”

“For vegetarians, this is the biggest positive lift versus, like, a normal average match that we make.”

“The couples that met on eHarmony also had a low divorce rate, so nearly half of what the marriages that met actually offline.”

“What we do is whenever we were rolling out in a new country, we first redo the compatibility model. So we take a new sample, a representative sample of marriages, and we have specific models for that locale in terms of compatibility. And then on the large-scal…”