$50,000 to find Love..

Name: $50,000 to find Love..
Uploaded: 2024-02-29T19:02:54+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Ryan Shank
Description: In this brief YouTube clip, Ryan Shank, an investor in the fintech startup Dinero, recounts a story about a female founder who offered a $50,000…

29 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube clip, Ryan Shank, an investor in the fintech startup Dinero, recounts a story about a female founder who offered a $50,000 "marriage bounty" to anyone in her network who could introduce her to a suitable partner. She posted her detailed dating criteria to a large, invitation‑only Google group called Post‑Exit Founders (PEF), which contains roughly 5,000 former startup founders. The post generated enthusiastic responses, highlighting the founder’s intentional approach to finding love and the willingness to relocate for a relationship. Shank uses the anecdote to comment on a broader trend: many founders and tech professionals are growing tired of conventional dating apps and swipe‑based platforms, perceiving them as low‑quality and seeking more purposeful, high‑stakes methods of meeting partners.

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I'm an investor in this company, in Dinero. She put on one of her investor updates a marriage bounty. You know, to match her. If someone in her network matches her with the person she gets married, she's going to pay them $50K. And then I'm in this founder group called PEF, Post-Exit Founders. It's actually really cool. There's like 5,000 people and it's a Google group. This woman posts in there to the whole group, I'm looking for love. I live in San Francisco, but honestly, I would move for love. And she posted all of her thing, her criteria, and everyone jumped on like, this is fucking awesome. Like, she's just so intentional about looking for it. And I think you're seeing a lot of intentionality in dating because people are so sick of dating apps and swiping. The bar is on the floor.