Talk:Sam Yagan

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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)

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented.

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]

If this needs further editing please ping me! CBCorazon (talk) 23:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: Implemented partially with this edit summary. CNMall41 (talk) 20:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing and implementing this! CBCorazon (talk) 19:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Sam Yagan. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. The requested edits backlog is high. Please be very patient. There are currently 175 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

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]

Ping me with questions, comments, and suggestions! CBCorazon (talk) 20:03, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Sam Yagan. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. The requested edits backlog is high. Please be very patient. There are currently 175 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

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]

Ping me with questions, comments, and suggestions! CBCorazon (talk) 04:25, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]