Jonathan Badeen
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219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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No, I did it once. I'm not suggesting you should go do it.
Yeah, I did.
I'm not the adventure person. Sorry for interrupting.
Absolutely. And I think, you know... you really shouldn't try to predict what somebody else wants anyway, because I mean, like, I think there's, you look at it, you know, Oh, I'm looking for somebody who's interested in the same things as me. Right. That's, that's the key to success of relationship or is it because they also say opposites attract.
So, I mean, like you almost, you don't necessarily even know what it is. And so maybe, you know, it's not really worth it to try to predict what the other person is wanting because, you know, it may not be that, or they may not even know what it is until they see what it is. Same for yourself, really.
Oh, there's a billion. I mean, that's, that's actually one of the most frustrating things as time goes on is, is that you just, you build this, uh, you know, everybody in that company just had a long list. The, the, the list of things that we wanted to make, uh, just went on forever. Um, and, uh, and it was just a matter of picking which one are we going to try?
So there's, there's all sorts of things that, uh, that we, that we wanted.
Well, I think one of my favorites that I wanted to do was a... I won't go into full detail on it, just in case anybody cares or whatever, but it was basically sort of a group dating bar hopping type of product that I thought would have been pretty cool, trying to use Tinder, which was trying to essentially make Tinder useful at a time when... that Tinder isn't generally useful.
Because, you know, like Tinder, for instance, like one of the, you know, the lower usage days are the days where people are out and busy and they've got things going on. You know, it's the time when people have downtime. That's the time where they really use Tinder.
And so it was, that was sort of the goal is to try to like, try to make Tinder useful at those times when you're out and about with your friends and all of that.
I think so. I think there's a little bit of that slot machine effect of like, you know, let me do one more. I remember back in college, Hot or Not was a thing, you know, it wasn't for dating, but it was for, you know, they added that later. But it was, you know, it was just sort of like, I'm going to, I'll stop once I get one more, when I see one more nine or something like that, you know.
So there was a little bit of that element going on. But I think even just the sort of the swipe action itself ends up sort of having an emotional connection to it, you know, where you're sort of like, oh, hell no. There is that sort of emotional connection to it. I think that interface and everything in general, it kind of feeds into that sort of almost
people watching kind of thing that we we that people like to do um and to me i'm you know i like to think of as a disney fan i always think of uh of mary poppins and uh the uh a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down and so that was you know not necessarily that quote being you know very cognizant of it when we were creating tinder but this idea of like look this is you
dating can be a difficult thing. Um, and, and going through all of these things and let's see if we can try to make that process fun. Um, and sort of disguising the work. Um, and because Tinder, you know, I think compared to other platforms that pre, uh, that, uh, predated Tinder, Tinder was a little bit more of a numbers game.
It was a bit more, go through a whole bunch of people and that's going to ultimately, whether swiping through a whole bunch of people and then going out on dates with a whole bunch of other people, the idea is you're going to increase the chances of finding the person that's right for you. Other platforms were a little bit more focused on diving into the person.
You'd spend more time on those and all. So we had to make something that was fun to get you through more people faster.
Well, I think some of it starts with trying to portray your best self, whether that be evaluate your photos and your profile and everything. Everything on there, evaluate it. you'll notice a lot that people put horrible pictures up on there.
I'm not saying you have to be a model or anything like that, but horrible quality photos, things like that, and run it by your friends, preferably women, who can say either, oh, that's not a good picture of you, or like, yeah, that's not really going to be interesting. a woman.
So I think bringing people in to kind of help evaluate, I know it can feel uncomfortable sometimes to expose yourself to your friends and this side of you or whatever, but I think that's important. You know, and I think also just it's utilizing the tools that are there.
And that, you know, there's a lot of tools that are in there from everything from sort of testing photos to trying to determine which of your photos is the best. There's a lot of things, you know, for adding to your profile and all. And those little things... They can help. Somebody sees that you like something on there that they don't like. Yeah, maybe it'll turn them off. But guess what?
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