One story that was mentioned a number of times throughout the day was The Match Group's amazing acquisition of PlentyOfFish for $ 575m, which was singlehandedly built by founder Markus
Frind over 10 years ago.
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PlentyofFish.com owner Markus
Frind commented
over on Online Dating Insider that this new deal was not good news for POF as they «share about 30 % of our core user base with singlesnet in the US».
They're going online to meet each other,» said Markus
Frind, the CEO of Plentyoffish, a free site, where visits have increased 77 % from Dec»07 to Dec» 08, and 32 %
over the last three months.
According to POF founder & CEO, Markus
Frind, POF is responsible for
over 1M babies.
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.
The CEO and founder Markus
Frind revealed the milestone, which comes after launching the site
over 12 years...
Frind, however, said he prefers to invest in later - stage companies
over Vancouver tech startups.
«It's so obvious that people would use online dating
over other methods,» said
Frind.
Plenty of Fish was founded in 2003 by
Frind, and is now the largest dating site in the world — with
over 60 million registered users.
According to the post,
Frind's wife received a call from Russo saying that PlentyOfFish had been hacked, and that «Russians have taken
over his computer and are trying to kill him, and his life is in extreme danger and they are currently downloading plentyoffish's database.»
For Plenty of Fish and Markus
Frind, this is an incredible buyout for a company that he started and bootstrapped himself
over 10 years ago.