Match.com bought POF for $575 million
 

Match.com just bought Plenty Of Fish......

Big money in dating for sure.

Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish For $575M To Bag More Singles | TechCrunch

Might be big money in dating but dating on stock market as never done very well.

someone got a nice payout :)

?I am confident that Match will help accelerate our growth even further,? added Markus Frind, CEO of PlentyOfFish, in another supporting statement. POF was founded back in 2003 in Canada by Frind, who bootstrapped the business, retaining control and sole ownership of the company ? and is now headed for a $525M cash out (once the deal closes)."

Wow.

Probably well worth it.

Unexpected, good for BC tax revenue tho :-)

Frind ran POF with NO EMPLOYEES for years.

Talk about a money machine.

"To bag more singles"?..
More like buying a ton of big data, same reason why Whatsapp was bought for $16Bil.. :x

Edit: If they added users to get more people matched up, they would lose money from people cancelling/not rebilling from finding someone......

Pretty good for a guy who started the business from his apartment

I bought some ads on the site for some of my mainstream sites.

Old thread from 2006...

https://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/13958.htm

scan the 12 pages for markus007 posts. :2 cents:

I new something was up with them not accepting any new publishers.

I have ran personal campaigns there for a while and did notice some changes going on.

Time to delete my POF profile..

Match.com and pof.com are both top ten dating sites, worldwide. Match.com can become number one, now.

Yah me too ;)

big money

why?

















you found the ONE?

1 mildly attractive woman for every 500 thirsty beta males.

Tons of fat single moms being picky.

Online dating is hell on earth. Tried it for one month. Banged one decent looking chick that was definitely a super slut.

that's great... they guy worked hard building the site up...

I have a friend of mine who uses POF. He was married to a smoking hot woman, she dropped him after two kids, and frankly he doesn't have much going for him.... He is older, over weight, has a boring job, doesn't make too much money, and his only hobbies are watching TV and video games. He is constantly going on dates using POF.

Serious biz :pimp

Land Whales, Fat Single Moms, etc.

I had a land whale over at my house when I first got it. I think I just texted her and we never talked. I had her come over and we held hands and watched "Autumn in New York"

After the movie I told her she should lay in my bed next to me, she did. I took all of my clothes off while she lay there and grab her hand and put it on my cock, she stroked it. Told her I liked bj's but she said she didn't give those, pissed me off.
I told her to take her pants off, she did, figured I'd give the 300 pound of a whale some fist banging action.

I ended up having to place 5 layers of bathroom towels under her because of the mess. She must have been backed up because tons came out and it all smelled really really bad.
I got a good workout though.

I didn't mention that incident to anyone locally yet it got out, fat cunt. Not polite to soak my bathroom towels and talk about it. :(

I'm sure that the look on my face right now is absolutely priceless.

not just yours...

I LITERALLY spit tea all over my monitor at this! WTF!

and ya'll thought manwin had money to play with back in the day.

congrats to Markus, well deserved!

Anyone have a contact in acquisitions at either match or pof?

:thumbsup

Why are you interested? :upsidedow :pimp

It's just money ...

serious money.

I do better bagging girls on OKC. :2 cents:

Probably a good idea, pretty sure Match won't let ass biting slide as one of your listed hobbies. :winkwink:

The advertising model as we know it is dying. The site wouldn't be able to stand on its own the way its set up now in a matter of a few years. POF is the perfect audience to push their premium sites and a portfolio of other services the company owns while cutting out the middle man.

Welcome to planet earth. Allow me to be your guide.