NEW YORK TIMES: Startup aims to transcend problems of dating sites, apps.
NEW YORK TIMES: Startup aims to transcend problems of dating sites, apps.
The company was part of the Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator’s January 2014 class, and by then it had a few thousand users, and was growing about 10 percent a week, charging $20 per person per date. Sales had started to flatten, however, and scheduling dates was a nightmare, Kay said.
“We had become a group-scheduling company, not a group-dating service.” Their ability to focus on compatibility was being compromised by their need to find enough people to fill dates.
