Christian Rudder

I was going to say, do you find that useful? That just seems anxiety-inducing.

I was going to say, do you find that useful? That just seems anxiety-inducing.

Why is it not 100?

Why is it not 100?

That's a great question. And that's something I think most people don't really, they don't understand how, how the, the backend of these things works. Cause like also we have to think about the person that we're like their experience too, right? Like the person that we're showing you. Yeah, exactly. So,

That's a great question. And that's something I think most people don't really, they don't understand how, how the, the backend of these things works. Cause like also we have to think about the person that we're like their experience too, right? Like the person that we're showing you. Yeah, exactly. So,

One of the very first things we learned about having a dating site is that there's this thing we call the focus problem. So guys just want to see the hottest women, right? And so if you just go by what the guys are sort of telling you they want, they want to see the highest rated women and just a giant stack or grid or whatever it is.

One of the very first things we learned about having a dating site is that there's this thing we call the focus problem. So guys just want to see the hottest women, right? And so if you just go by what the guys are sort of telling you they want, they want to see the highest rated women and just a giant stack or grid or whatever it is.

But if you go and do that and you kind of try to meet their need without any other consideration... Well, what happens? Those women get tons of messages from tons of randos. Their inbox explodes. It feels gross. And they leave. And then now you're left with, if you just showed all the 10s, now you're left with 9s and 8s and so forth. And you end up in this death spiral.

But if you go and do that and you kind of try to meet their need without any other consideration... Well, what happens? Those women get tons of messages from tons of randos. Their inbox explodes. It feels gross. And they leave. And then now you're left with, if you just showed all the 10s, now you're left with 9s and 8s and so forth. And you end up in this death spiral.

Because also the guys don't get any messages back. Hmm. So you have to kind of look at it as a pair of people always, not just, what are we doing for Trevor today? It's like, what are we doing for Trevor and this person and Trevor and this person?

Because also the guys don't get any messages back. Hmm. So you have to kind of look at it as a pair of people always, not just, what are we doing for Trevor today? It's like, what are we doing for Trevor and this person and Trevor and this person?

Yeah, you have to think of it like that because otherwise, you know, we could show you the N hottest women in the database, but... that's not going to be good for you ultimately. And it's definitely not going to be good for them if we do it for everybody, right? And I think most apps do this at this point too. We would do sort of like a hotness sort of color.

Yeah, you have to think of it like that because otherwise, you know, we could show you the N hottest women in the database, but... that's not going to be good for you ultimately. And it's definitely not going to be good for them if we do it for everybody, right? And I think most apps do this at this point too. We would do sort of like a hotness sort of color.

So if you're an eight or whatever, like this picture, just on the picture, right? This would be one of the We would show you nines, eights, and sevens, with maybe a few tens and maybe some fives and whatever, just to really reduce people.

So if you're an eight or whatever, like this picture, just on the picture, right? This would be one of the We would show you nines, eights, and sevens, with maybe a few tens and maybe some fives and whatever, just to really reduce people.

That way, they're seeing someone like themselves, you're seeing people like yourself, and that's the optimal sort of band for there actually being a productive conversation between the two of you. And then we would also throw in information, like the kind of classic matching stuff of how important is religion to you or how important is politics or whatever, those kinds of things.

That way, they're seeing someone like themselves, you're seeing people like yourself, and that's the optimal sort of band for there actually being a productive conversation between the two of you. And then we would also throw in information, like the kind of classic matching stuff of how important is religion to you or how important is politics or whatever, those kinds of things.

That would be maybe... A third would be the questions about the two of you. A third would be this attractiveness matching. And then we would throw in a healthy dose of just like randomness. You can't just give people what they want because your app will explode. You'll end up with this focus problem thing where you're just showing everybody. You know, women like seeing hot people too.

That would be maybe... A third would be the questions about the two of you. A third would be this attractiveness matching. And then we would throw in a healthy dose of just like randomness. You can't just give people what they want because your app will explode. You'll end up with this focus problem thing where you're just showing everybody. You know, women like seeing hot people too.