By the fall of 1994, Gary Kremen was working toward launching the first dating site online, Match.com. There was another four-letter word for love, he knew, and it was data, the stuff he would use to match people. No one had done this, so he had to start from scratch, drawing on instinct and his own dating experience.

Who was the original founder of match com?

By the fall of 1994, Gary Kremen was working toward launching the first dating site online, Match.com. There was another four-letter word for love, he knew, and it was data, the stuff he would use to match people. No one had done this, so he had to start from scratch, drawing on instinct and his own dating experience.

Who is the owner of match com?

IAC1999 Match.com/Owners

Who designed Match?

Gary Kremen Gary Kremen (born 1963) is an American engineer, entrepreneur and public servant who invented online dating, founded the personals site Match.com, was the first registrant of Sex.com and founder of Clean Power Finance, and is a board member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District.

Why was Match created?

Kremen founded Electric Classifies, Inc. (ECI) in 1993 to realize his vision of an online personals database. In his pitch to get investor funding, he positioned Match as the first of several online classified-ad sites he would launch, followed by other, more traditional classifieds such as jobs, housing, and cars.