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
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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
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38mins
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
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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
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48mins
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1hr 1min