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Where are the anti- gay donations like the one's on Brendan Eich's page?
[edit]If the guy who invented javascript, a product used by billions can be better known on Wikipedia for his political donations-match.com pales in comparison-Sam's donations should be in the lede?
OkCupid's co-founder and CEO Sam Yagan once donated to an anti-gay candidate. (Yagan is also CEO of Match.com.) Specifically, Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) in 2004, reports Uncrunched. During his time as congressman from 1997 to 2009, Cannon voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, against a ban on sexual-orientation based job discrimination, and for prohibition of gay adoptions.
Sam Yagan, who is currently CEO of the Match Group, which controls OkCupid, donated $500 to Barack Obama in 2007 and 2008 back when he still opposed gay marriage.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.39.30 (talk • contribs) 09:49, April 8, 2014 (UTC)
Request to add Corazon Capital subsection
[edit]Hi Wikipedia, my name is Carrie, I work for Corazon Capital and Sam Yagan. I have some suggestions for this page I would like to bring in front of editors for discussion.
Corazon Capital is a company Yagan co-founded in 2014 however it is not represented in this page. I have drafted content with independent reliable sources that I believe would work well as a subsection in the Career section. It should be the last subsection in that section to keep with the timeline. Please see the draft below:
Corazon Capital
In 2014, Yagan co-founded Corazon Capital with Steve Farsht which invested in Series A startups, raising a pilot fund of $13 million.[1] Corazon raised $40 million in 2016; in 2021 it raised $100 million with an additional $34 million opportunity fund.[2]
References
- ^ Moore, Galen (5 October 2016). "OkCupid Founder Sam Yagan's Corazon Capital Is Back With a Bigger Fund II". Chicago Inno. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
The $13 million Corazon I, also led by Yagan and Farsht, was known for bringing in local entrepreneurs as limited partners, including Inventables founder CEO Zach Kaplan...The firm has participated in Series A-sized rounds for several Chicago startups.
- ^ Pletz, John (8 December 2021). "Yagan raises $100 million for third Corazon venture fund". Crain’s Chicago Business. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
Corazon Capital, a venture-capital firm co-founded by Sam Yagan, raised a $100 million third fund and a $34 million sidecar fund for follow-on investments...Corazon's previous fund, raised in 2016, was $40 million.
If this needs further editing please ping me! CBCorazon (talk) 23:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Partly done: Implemented partially with this edit summary. CNMall41 (talk) 20:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for reviewing and implementing this! CBCorazon (talk) 19:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Request to update Excelerate Labs and IAC information
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This is Carrie with Corazon Capital and Sam Yagan. I would like to make some further suggestions here on the Yagan page:
The current information about Excelerate Labs is lacking. Right now, there is only one sentence in the article about it, which I think could be replaced with the following content (this draft does not remove the facts currently in the article, just expands on them).
Drafted content:
- In 2009, Yagan, Kelli Rhee, and Kapil Chaudhary co-founded Excelerate Labs with the financial backing from Sandbox Industries.[1] In 2013, Excelerate Labs merged with Techstars.[2] During the merger, board members stayed.[3]
Additionally, the information about IAC is similar and I have done the same thing, where the sole sentence can be replaced with the drafted content below, which incorporates the facts already there.
Drafted content:
- In 2011, Yagan led the sale of OkCupid to Match Group, a subsidiary of IAC, for $90 million.[4] Yagan was the CEO of Match Group for three years and left at the end of 2015 before joining the company’s public board as vice chairman.[5] Under Yagan's guidance, Match Group started Tinder.[6]
References
- ^ Rao, Leena (20 March 2010). "Excelerate Labs Brings A Startup Incubator To Chicago". TechCrunch. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ Harris, Melissa (1 February 2013). "City's top tech-startup incubator to merge with national competitor". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
Excelerate Labs, Chicago's first and most prominent tech startup incubator, is joining TechStars, a Boulder, Colo.-based competitor
- ^ Pletz, John (1 February 2013). "Excelerate teams up with TechStars, rebrands". Crain’s Chicago Business. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
The Chicago accelerator will continue to be run by Mr. Henikoff and the other board members.
- ^ Elahi, Amina (December 22, 2015). "Sam Yagan set to join Match Group board after IPO". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
OkCupid and SparkNotes co-founder Yagan is a prominent figure in Chicago's technology scene. He sold the dating company to Match Group parent IAC in 2011 for $90 million and went on to co-found local accelerator Excelerate Labs, now Techstars Chicago.
- ^ Elahi, Amina (22 December 2015). "Sam Yagan set to join Match Group board after IPO". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Roberts, Daniel (25 September 2013). "The nerd king of online dating". Fortune. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
Many of Tinder's users don't realize that it is owned by Match; the app came from its R&D lab and launched under Yagan's guidance.
Ping me with questions, comments, and suggestions! CBCorazon (talk) 20:03, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Request to update OkCupid and eDonkey content
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Hi Wikipedia, Carrie again. I would like to make suggestions to update information about OkCupid and eDonkey in the Career section.
My draft eDonkey and OkCupid content updates the Career section to make it more robust. It does not remove content, only rewords and reincorporates some of it.
Replace:
- By age 25, Yagan was the president of eDonkey (founded in 2002), a P2P file-sharing network. As the developer of eDonkey, Yagan testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing a need for balance between innovation and intellectual property.
With:
- eDonkey was a part of MetaMachine Inc and was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network. Yagan was the CEO of MetaMachine Inc.[1] As the developer of eDonkey, Yagan testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing a need for balance between innovation and intellectual property.[2]
- In 2006, MetaMachine, Yagan, and founder Jed McCaleb agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the RIAA.[1] In accordance with the agreement, MetaMachine, Yagan and McCaleb agreed to discontinue distribution of its software as well as to deprecate previous copies of its software.[3]
Replace:
- In 2003, Yagan again teamed up with his Harvard classmates Chris Coyne and Max Krohn and founded OkCupid.
With:
- In 2003, Yagan again teamed up with his Harvard classmates Chris Coyne, Max Krohn, and Christian Rudder to found online dating website OkCupid.[4] Yagan was looking for different solutions to online dating, one that used mathematics and substantive data to predict compatibility. Yagan and partners designed OkCupid with a question-and-answer-based system.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b McCarthy, Caroline (26 September 2006). "File-sharing site eDonkey kicks it". CNET. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "Testimony of Sam Yagan". United States Senate Judiciary Committee. Archived from the original on December 20, 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ Billboard Staff (12 September 2006). "eDonkey Settles With Majors To Tune Of $30m". Billboard. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ Hemmerdinger, J. (3 March 2011). "Matchmaking math: 1 + 1 = $50 million". Press Herald. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ Ciment, Shoshy (14 February 2020). "The 'grandfather of online dating' reveals the 3 crucial questions that can predict long-term compatibility in a relationship". Business Insider. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ NPR Staff (6 September 2014). "Online Dating Stats Reveal A 'Dataclysm' Of Telling Trends". NPR. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
Ping me with questions, comments, and suggestions! CBCorazon (talk) 04:25, 24 July 2024 (UTC)