There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

Sam Yagan

We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

Sam Yagan

We can watch every time someone looks at a profile. Do they choose to send that person a message? We can look at every message that's sent, and we can determine, was that message replied to or not.

Sam Yagan

When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.

Sam Yagan

We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

Sam Yagan

I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.

Sam Yagan

One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

Sam Yagan

We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.

Sam Yagan

Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

Sam Yagan

When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

Sam Yagan

One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.

Sam Yagan

I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.

Sam Yagan

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

Sam Yagan

People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.

Sam Yagan

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

Sam Yagan

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

Sam Yagan

Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

Sam Yagan

New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.

Sam Yagan

Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

Sam Yagan

Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

Sam Yagan

I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.

Sam Yagan