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Markus Frind
In dating site entrepreneurs, Markus Frind (c. 1978) is a Canadian computer systems technologist noted for starting the site PlentyofFish in 2003 during a excursion in learning ASP.NET programming language. [1] Overview
Frind graduated in 1999 from British Columbia Technical Institute with a diploma in Computer Science and went on to become an web developer and database developer working with numerous companies to make their sites run more efficiently, on less servers. He created PlentyofFish in 2003. In about this period, Frind states, on his homepage, that at the age of twenty-six his algorithms and results were cited in a Fields Medal paper. In 2007, PlentyofFish had one million logins every day and runing on a total of eight servers. [2]
| June 09, 2008 interview of Frind at the Canadian NextMEDIA 2008 conference. |
Site origin
In 2001, after Frind's birthday, someone in the office where Frind was working introduced him to online dating sites. He then went back to my desk and checked out uDate.com and Kiss.com and lavalife/web personals. He found that he was really annoyed when he found out one had to pay for everything. He commented to the female coworker, who introduced him to the sites, that "I could do better and make them for free". He then went and and registered Plentyoffish.com, creating the index page, and then forgot about the idea for the next two years. [3] In 2003, during a excursion in learning ASP.NET, he then built the site.
References
1. Plenty of Fish (homepage) – PlentyofFish.com.
2. Panelists – Wharton Technology Conference 2007.
3. Frind, Markus. (2006). “How I Started a Dating Empire”, June 14, PlentyofFish.WordPress.com.
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