Sam Yagan

10 Podcast Episodes

Building a Better Business w/ Sam Yagan & Lindsay Verstegen

Building a Better Business w/ Sam Yagan & Lindsay Verstegen

Sam Yagan and Lindsay Verstegan worked together as the CEO and CHRO of ShopRunner from 2016 until it sold to Fedex in ea... Read more

10 Aug 2021

1hr 17mins

Sam Yagan @ OkCupid: The College Buddies Who Pioneered Freemium Dating

Sam Yagan @ OkCupid: The College Buddies Who Pioneered Freemium Dating

Online dating was an early part of the Web. But, to Sam Yagan and his friends, it was broken. The industry leaders were ... Read more

10 May 2021

38mins

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Building an innovative, data-driven culture: An interview with ShopRunner CEO Sam Yagan

Building an innovative, data-driven culture: An interview with ShopRunner CEO Sam Yagan

Sam Yagan, current ShopRunner CEO, cofounder of OkCupid, and former Match Group CEO, discusses the importance of culture... Read more

13 Feb 2019

14mins

Sam Yagan: From Startup Failure To Leading A $400M IPO That Transformed Online Dating

Sam Yagan: From Startup Failure To Leading A $400M IPO That Transformed Online Dating

Sam Yagan is currently the CEO of ShopRunner which has raised over $100M from the likes of Alibaba Group or August Capit... Read more

6 Feb 2019

48mins

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Sam Yagan of SparkNotes and OkCupid

Sam Yagan of SparkNotes and OkCupid

On this episode of Contrary Radio, we cover how Sam started SparkNotes in college and OkCupid in business school, making... Read more

27 Nov 2018

27mins

OkCupid founder Sam Yagan

OkCupid founder Sam Yagan

Sam Yagan knows he’s been lucky. He tells us that one of the luckiest moments of his life was meeting his college roomma... Read more

18 May 2018

28mins

The Only Thing That Matters: Episode 9: Sam Yagan of OkCupid, SparkNotes, EDonkey, Excelerate Labs

The Only Thing That Matters: Episode 9: Sam Yagan of OkCupid, SparkNotes, EDonkey, Excelerate Labs

There's the killer idea. The dynamic team. The seed round. Great founders today -- the ones who create high-growth, scal... Read more

7 Nov 2017

16mins

04 Sam Yagan - CEO of ShopRunner and Co-Founder of OKCupid on How to Hire the Right People and Scale Your Business

04 Sam Yagan - CEO of ShopRunner and Co-Founder of OKCupid on How to Hire the Right People and Scale Your Business

Sam Yagan holds quite the entrepreneurial resume. During his college years, he co-founded SparkNotes, which sold for $30... Read more

1 Nov 2017

41mins

#8: Inside Match, Tinder, & OKCupid with CEO Sam Yagan [Full Episode]

#8: Inside Match, Tinder, & OKCupid with CEO Sam Yagan [Full Episode]

Today we’re going to talk to Sam Yagan, the CEO of the newly-public Match Group. Match is a dating conglomerate that com... Read more

29 Nov 2015

54mins

EPISODE 08.02 - OKCupid's Founder Sam Yagan

EPISODE 08.02 - OKCupid's Founder Sam Yagan

Prior to OKCupid Sam Yagan sold SparkNotes in a multimillion dollar deal. By age 25, he was garnering national coverage ... Read more

24 Apr 2008

1hr 1min

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