#4 - One algorithm to help 50 million people find love (ft Tom Quisel, former CTO @ OkCupid)

In this episode, Tom Quisel and I discuss: 

• How Tom got his start working at OkCupid, one of the most popular dating sites in the world 
• The efforts Tom and the OkCupid team went through to help reduce bias in dating apps 
• Experiments OkCupid has done to better understand just how superficial modern daters are 
• OkCupid's discovery that we are, in fact, absurdly superficial 
• The surreal story of how I introduced Tom to his fiancé. 
• Tom’s post-OkCupid career in healthtech and IoT, using apple watch and fitbit data to predict conditions like diabetes and multiple sclerosis  
• Tom's subsequent foray into the cryptosphere, building products that empower individuals to send cross-border payments without those exorbitant fees, enabling low income individuals to more easily send money to their relatives in other countries 
• Ideal strategies for sending first messages in online dating 
• Strategies for dating in small towns vs. in cities 
• Whether Facebook's new dating app dating will make a meaningful difference in the dating industry