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

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

I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

— Sam Yagan

In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

— Sam Yagan

I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

— Sam Yagan

I think of Ok Cupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.

— Sam Yagan

My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.

— Sam Yagan

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

— 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

OK Cupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

— Sam Yagan