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Sam Yagan is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder of OkCupid, SparkNotes, and Match.com. He is also the vice-chairman of Match.com and the CEO of Shoprunner. Yagan was born on April 10, 1977 in the United States. He attended Harvard University, where he earned a degree in applied mathematics and economics. Yagan co-founded OkCupid in 2003, and it quickly became one of the most popular online dating sites. He also co-founded SparkNotes, an online study guide, in 1999. In 2011, he became the vice-chairman of Match.com, and in 2013, he became the CEO of Shoprunner, an online shopping service. Yagan has been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He has also been recognized for his work, receiving the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2011. As of 2021, Sam Yagan's net worth is estimated to be roughly $200 million.

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Occupation Co-founder of OkCupidCo-founder of SparkNotesVice-Chairman of Match.comCEO of Shoprunner
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 10 April 1977
Birthday 10 April
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Nationality United States

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His wife is Jessica Droste Yagan (m. 2003)
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2019

The son of Syrian immigrants, Al and Dr. Haifa Yagan, Sam was instilled with an entrepreneurial spirit at a young age. He grew up in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and studied at the Illinois Math and Science Academy and eventually Harvard University. Yagan holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he earned distinction as a Siebel Scholar, an Arjay Miller Scholar, and the Henry Ford Scholar, the award granted to each class’s valedictorian. His brother Danny Yagan is an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His wife Jessica Droste Yagan is the CEO of Impact Engine, an impact investing fund.

2014

In 2014, Yagan was listed as one of Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40."

2013

In April 2013, Yagan was listed as one of TIME Magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World'.

2011

In 2011, Yagan sold his dating website (OkCupid) to IAC for $50 million and in 2012, Yagan became the CEO of Match.com (a subsidiary of IAC).

In 2011, Yagan was named to Crain's "40 under 40" in Chicago.

2009

In 2009, Yagan and Troy Henikoff founded Excelerate Labs.

2003

In 2003, Yagan again teamed up with his Harvard classmates Chris Coyne and Max Krohn and founded OkCupid.

2002

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.

1999

In 1999, during his senior year at Harvard, Yagan and two of his classmates, Chris Coyne and Max Krohn, started the online study guide SparkNotes. Christian Rudder joined shortly after the founding. A year later they sold the company to Barnes & Noble for $30 million.

1977

Sam Yagan (born April 10, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid. In 2013, he was named to TIME Magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World' list. He is the Vice-Chairman of the e-dating site Match.com.

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