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Mark Zuckerberg Let Tinder Get Special Access to Users’ Data
FORBES – Nov 8 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered entering the online dating business as far back as 2014, but he put the idea on the back burner, instead giving Tinder special access to its users' data, leaked emails between top executives show. The leaked correspondence is part of an ongoing lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, a now-defunct app developer that sued Facebook in 2015 for restricting user data access, alleging the actions were uncompetitive. The correspondence shows how perilously close Tinder came to losing key access to Facebook user information that helped Tinder grow rapidly in its early years, when members often used their Facebook logins to access the app. When Facebook further restricted the kind of information third-party apps could access after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in March 2018, Tinder's app crashed. Tinder was on Facebook's radar in 2013. Zuckerberg wrote in January 2014 to two executives: "Tinder's growth is especially alarming to me because their product is built completely on Facebook data, and it's much better than anything we've built for recommendations using the same corpus." In 2014, Facebook announced it would start preventing third-party app developers from having access to data on users' friends, including birth dates, photos and pages they liked. The company gave a May 2015 deadline for developers to comply with its new set of access rules. However, Zuckerberg made some companies and apps an exception. Tinder was one. Facebook agreed to give Tinder a special data-sharing agreement, internally known as "whitelists," if the dating app shared trademark rights on "MOMENTS." which was the planned name for a photo app that Facebook wanted to launch, an email exchange in March 2015 showed. When asked about this agreement in 2018, a spokeswoman for Tinder said: "Tinder never received special treatment, data or access related to this dispute or its resolution." Other dating apps that had whitelist agreements with Facebook include Bumble, Badoo, Coffee Meets Bagel, Hinge and jSwipe.
Coffee Meets Bagel – 5M Matches and 166% Revenue Growth
SF BUSINESS TIMES – Oct 23 – Dawoon Kang trusts her dating app so much that her last two long-term relationships were people she met on her own site. Kang is co-founder and co-CEO of Coffee Meets Bagel, a San Francisco-based dating site company she started with her sisters Arum Kang and Soo Kang in 2012. The app has recently celebrated 50M match milestone, and saw 166% revenue growth between 2016 and 2018. To help build on the company's momentum, Coffee Meets Bagel this year hired a CFO, who is an alumni of Zynga and OpenTable; a CTO, who was formerly of Hearsay Systems; and a vice president of analytics who spent time at Lyft and Facebook. One of the app's most valued subscription features is an analytics report on users' matches. The report allows them to see their potential dates' response rates, match rates and tendency to start a conversation. They also let users know if a match has read their message and whether there might be a connection before choosing to start a conversation. Coffee Meets Bagel ditches the traditional swiping model.
Coffee Meets Bagel Announces New Feautures Like ‘Unlimited Takes’ and ‘Priority Likes’
YAHOO FINANCE – June 13 – Coffee Meets Bagel Co-CEO and Co-founder Dawoon Kang shared an exclusive announcement about her dating app; this includes new offerings like 'unlimited takes' and 'priority likes.' She mentioned that Coffee Meets Bagel made a big investment into the dating app, and doubled its subscription base. She would not disclose the number of paying users.
Study: People Who Use Dating Apps Are More Likely to Have Eating Disorders
CNBC – May 31 – A Harvard study found that people who use dating apps are 3-16 x more likely to have an eating disorder than those who don't use the apps. Women were particularly vulnerable, with those who use apps such as Tinder and Coffee Meets Bagel having 2.3 to 26.9 times higher odds of using elevated "unhealthy weight control behaviors." That includes self-induced vomiting, fasting or using diet pills and laxatives, which are all symptoms of eating disorders.
Podcast With Coffee Meets Bagel CEO
SLATE – Feb 25 – Dawoon Kang, CEO of Coffee Meets Bagel dating app, talks about co-founding the company with her sisters, her effort to make online dating less overwhelming and the challenges of raising money. Full podcast.
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Dawoon Kang, Founder of Coffee Meets Bagel: “This Is How I Work”
LIFEHACKER – Feb 21 – After seeing the toxicity of other dating services, Dawoon Kang created Coffee Meets Bagel as a safer, friendlier alternative. "Dating apps have always had a huge imbalance in gender ratio. Because of that, guys get really frustrated and engage in behaviors that turn off women even more. So we wanted to create a great experience for everyone, and make a platform and experience that appealed to women," she says.
Q: What's your workspace setup like?
A: I have two monitors. My biggest "hack" is to put everything important on the calendar and to follow it to the teeth.
Q: What hacks went into Coffee Meets Bagel?
A: Manpower. In the beginning, everything on Coffee Meets Bagel was done manually. Manual matching. Manual approval. Matching was something that we quickly automated. Manual approving actually went on for quite a while, which was a real pain.
Q: Who are the people who help you get things done?
A: Everyone on my team, of course! I've started outsourcing more things that I know aren't my strengths, or that I simply don't enjoy doing.
Q: Do you have any dating hacks of your own?
A: Start by self-reflecting. We end up wasting a ton of time on the wrong people because we don't know what we want. Additionally, learn how to communicate.
Q: How do you recharge or take a break?
A: Exercise, meditation, and travel.
Q: What's your favorite side project?
A: Pole dancing.
Q: What are you currently reading, or what do you recommend?
A: I just read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. It's a GREAT leadership book. I also just started reading The All-or-Nothing Marriage by Eli J. Finkel.
Q: What's the best advice you've ever received?
A: If you do whatever you said you are going to do every day, you will get whatever you said you are going to get.
Q: What's a problem you're still trying to solve?
A: I'm still trying to ensure that all singles out there get to experience connections that inspire them!
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Dating App Coffee Meets Bagel Sends Alert About Data Breach
FORTUNE – Feb 14 – Coffee Meets Bagel sent an email to users yesterday warning that some of their personal information may have been stolen. The company said it learned on Monday about an unauthorized access to a partial list of user data, but did not specify how many people were affected by the breach. The exposed information included names and email addresses used on the app before May 2018. The company reminded users: "we never store any financial information or passwords."
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What Will Online Dating Be Like in 2030?
MASHABLE – Feb 14 – Online dating isn't going away any time soon. If anything, it's likely to become further integrated into even more people's lives. "Online daters are exhausted," said Dawoon Kang, co-founder and co-CEO of Coffee Meets Bagel. "Machine-learning and AI may be able to help. People, a lot of times, don't know what they want. Better machine-learning could tailor your matches to your actions, rather than your stated desires", Kang said. Loveflutter, a UK dating app, has AI that matches people based on personality traits it decodes from their tweets. It also plans to use AI to coach users through meeting offline after analyzing their chats. Jean Meyer, the founder and CEO of European dating app Once, doesn't think the dating industry will crack the AI code. "The optimum for a dating service is to show you profiles of people that might be good enough, but not perfection," Meyer said. Pheramor, DNA Romance, and Instant Chemistry all analyze users' DNA to make matches. Video will play a larger role in dating apps, execs said, but how, exactly, is still unclear. Virtual reality in dating apps will also take cultural change.
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620M Accounts Stolen From 16 Hacked Websites Now for Sale on Dark Web
THE REGISTER – Feb 13 – For less than $20K in Bitcoin, it is claimed, the following pilfered account databases can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network. Dubsmash (162M), MyFitnessPal (151M), MyHeritage (92M), ShareThis (41M), HauteLook (28M), Animoto (25M), EyeEm (22M), 8fit (20M), Whitepages (18M), Fotolog (16M), 500px (15M), Armor Games (11M), BookMate (8M), CoffeeMeetsBagel (6M), Artsy (1M), and DataCamp (700K). It consist mainly of names, email addresses, and passwords. There are a few other bits of info, depending on the site, such as location, personal details, and social media authentication tokens. There appears to be no payment or bank card details in the sales listings. The seller, who is believed to be located outside of the US, told us the Dubsmash data has been purchased by at least one person. Jenn Takahashi, spokesperson for the CoffeeMeetsBagel, said: "We are not aware of a breach at this time, but our security team is looking into this now." She also said they do not store passwords, and use third-party sites for authentication.
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