Find Your Next Date By Swiping Memes? Vidya Madhavan – Founder of Schmooze - a podcast by Rick Liu

Okay if you’re still single, and not finding any luck on Tinder or Bumble, this is the episode for you 😜  

Today we'll be chatting with Vidya Madhavan, a Stanford student that’s building Schmooze, a new dating app that allows you to find your next match not through looks or copy and pasted pickup lines, but by swiping memes! They have their own humor-based matching algorithm and have now created more than 100,000 matches.

If you want to see our meme game Schmooze or Snooze, head over to watch this episode on YouTube!

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Magic Portal:

(00:00) – Intro

(00:43) – Vidya & Schmooze

(01:47) – Meme officers

(03:58) – Origin story – cold email to marriage??

(06:18) – Successful matches

(07:11) – Unexpected challenges

(09:06) – Convincing investors to invest in meme-based dating

(11:21) – Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

(14:29) – Best advice ever received

(15:52) – Takeaways

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