Frind created the site in his apartment in 2003, and up until 2008 was the company's only employee, despite the fact that Plenty of Fish was profitable from day one.
An article in Inc. gave an in - depth account of how
Frind created a dating behemoth, solely through advertising.
Markus
Frind created Plenty of Fish as a coding exercise in 2003.
Frind created his own game and wrote his own rules.
Not exact matches
Frind estimates, based on exit surveys, that the site
creates 800,000 successful relationships a year.
Frind did hire a relationship psychologist to
create «compatibility matching tools» for Plentyoffish.com.
Plenty of Fish, with 400,000 hits a day, was
created by Markus
Frind, who still runs it out of his apartment.
Although
Frind grew the team to over 75 employees in its Vancouver headquarters, in the 12 years since he
created the site, he still owns 100 % of the company — giving no equity to any employees.
Frind estimates, based on exit surveys, that the site
creates 800k successful relationships a year.
Markus
Frind: I
created Plentyoffish to teach myself asp.net; there was no plan to
create a major business - I just kind of stumbled on it.
Markus
Frind, CEO of PlenyofFish.com, says his site
creates 800,000 relationships each year, according to exit interviews with departing members.
Take your decision, say to your new
frinds: «I don't want to lose my love any more» Remember, many people would like to meet a very pretty lady and to
create a firm family.
Despite increasing market share, Markus
Frind, the one - man workforce behind the free and extremely popular Plentyoffish dating site, is looking to
create a few waves in his current business model.
Created and founded by Markus
Frind in 2003, PlentyofFish.com has changed the face of the online dating industry by showing singles they don't have to pay for love.
A recently
created Vancouver startup providing peer - to - peer loans has just caught the Maple Syrup Mafia's big fish, Markus
Frind.