I am offering a $100k bounty to the person who sets me up with my life partner

One of the audience members interrupted, his co-founders had discussed their vesting schedule alot and thought it was better, he started to explain.

The presenter interrupted, asking why are you wasting time, energy, and brain cells on discussing vesting, and not spending it on THE PRODUCT, product market fit, MVP, customers, schedule, and THINGS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR company succeed. Vesting is binary, it either pays off, or more typically is worth zero. Don't waste the group's time and certainly don't waste VC's time on vesting. During your pitch, vesting should be exactly one sentence, the standard. Anything different makes you look clueless and not focusing on the PRODUCT.

There are a number of actual matchmaking services in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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So you didn't bother filling in anything about your personality or basic facts before posting this?

Or is there some bug on the webpage which prevents all the most important information from rendering?

"Find a partner who can support me in my growth"

What about your partner's growth? You need to build something new together, not just extend yourself. That is selfish and won't work long term.

Those on the former end are already somewhat incentivized without the bounty, while those toward the latter, for whom the monetary incentive is the greatest, are the least well-positioned to deliver. The higher the bounty, the greater the pool, but it only widens at the far end of familiarity, so premium bounties would seem to be a waste.

Perhaps the rationalist response to that would be that there must then be an equilibrium point for the bounty, but I’m not sure how one would even begin to empirically establish it.

I think a lot of people would consider doing that. But of course it’s not that simple. What happens when your partner finds out about the genie? Would you have met that person had you not paid the genie? Or maybe you would’ve met them in 24 months instead.

He could do lots of things to meet women, beyond (also lazy) online dating - sports, classes, find a job where he meets them, volunteer, whatever. But that would take effort. Instead he wants to throw a sum that isn't particularly material to him at the problem. You get out what you put in.

The most rational thing we can all do is lower our standards.

The in-between would be people who actually know you setting you up with someone else they know, which I imagine could work.

I think this is why Indian matchmaking is such a successful industry. My prediction is that matchmaking grows in the US and eventually becomes one of the main methods for looking for a serious partner online. It won't be called "arranged marriages" in the US due to some generational stigma around that term, but the base concept will be very similar. Could see this being common within 15 years.

Of course, not all feedback was positive. The main concern that many people had, were that Mati and I were attempting to transactionalize a personal relationship. Of course, this was very far from our intension.

Our project’s goal is simply to create an incentive structure to help our friends (and their friends) link together 2 intelligent, empathetic, driven, and adventurous humans.

Dude you are transactionalizing, capitalistifying and consumerizing your 'planned partnership' to the effing eff. Claiming you don't is like claiming the Earth is flat.

Do I have to wait till you die to collect?

What if the partner dies before you do, do I return the check?