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Back to EpisodesPlenty of Fish Sold for $575M. He Had 3 Employees.
Description
Markus Frind built the largest dating site in the world by himself, ran it on about an hour a day and sold it for $575 million to a single shareholder. Then he bought more than 1,100 acres in the Okanagan and went back to farming.
Featuring: Markus Frind, Annie Frind, Kevin Burton, Frank Giustra, Lady Gaga
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Chapters:
(00:00) The French Riviera, and a business running without him
(00:27) Donauwörth to Hudson's Hope, 1,200 acres and a trailer
(01:27) BCIT, the 1999 diploma and the dot-com break
(03:05) Plenty of Fish, written in two weeks and priced at zero
(04:14) The $901,733.84 cheque from Google
(05:13) The midnight call, and the $575 million sale
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