Could you imagine loosing your girlfriend to your

own creation? That’s what happened to the founder

of Match.com, who lost his girlfriend to a man she

met on Match.com.

OUCH!

Way back in the infancy of the internet, online

dating was a relatively new thing. Well, everything

online was a new thing. Gary Kremen, remember

that name, was one of the pioneers of the internet

at that time. He created several domains, from porn

to cars to housing. As well as being the founder of

Match.com, which was going to prove to be a

rather bitter endeavor for him.

How the founder of Match.com lost his

girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com

In 1993, Gary Kremen saw potential in online

dating, but the world was yet to be convinced, so

he created Match.com. As people weren’t dating

online, probably due to it having negative

connotations, he worked on a solution to the

problem. What Kremen did was get everyone in the

company to create a profile on the site. This even

included his girlfriend at the time, even though they

were in a relationship. Uh oh. I bet you can see his

problem already developing.

Well it appears as though his idea worked. This

trick helped the company grow the number of users,

but it came at a cost Kremen. His girlfriend met

another man on the site, and left Kremen for him.

But all wasn’t lost. Gary Kremen has said that it

was painful, but it showed him that the site

worked.

Today Match.com is one of the world’s largest and

most popular websites. It is ranked in the top 500

worldwide, and has a total of 21,575,000 members.

To think its success started when the girlfriend of

the founder of Match.com left him for another man.