#41 - Dating app that has an admissions process like Harvard

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Sean** (0:31)
What's up, guys? Sean here. I got a couple of announcements for you. So we'll start with a little celebration. We crossed the one million download mark, which is amazing in just, I don't know, six months that we've been out. So that's kind of incredible. Didn't think it would get this far. Obviously, you got a long way to go. In the words of Dr. Disrespect, we're all the way at the tippy top of the mountain, but we're only halfway up. Okay, so a couple other announcements. We've been doing these brainstorms, me and Sam from The Hustle, and they've been a lot of fun to do, plus I think seem to be the favorites from listeners, more so than the interviews even. So we actually are gonna do what most projects and startups should do, which is follow the demand. So those episodes are the ones that get the best feedback, they get the most listens and they're the most fun to do. So we're gonna double down and do more episodes of that style. So we'll still bring in awesome guests who can tell us about their company and how they did it. But in fact, we're gonna invite them in instead of saying, hey, tell me your life story, we're gonna spend the time with them saying, hey, okay, how did you do what you do?
And what else do you see out there? Brainstorm with us and it'll be more casual. And I think it'll be interesting to see what really smart, successful people who are, they're operating their company sometimes for 10 years, but they see all kinds of other opportunities that they can't go chase. And they have this list of ideas that they'll never get to. And so I wanna see that list of ideas. I want them to come share that on the podcast. So going forward, we'll be doing more episodes like the Brainstorms. Hope you guys like that. Okay, so those are two announcements. And then this episode is with Amanda Bradford from The League. The League is a dating app. She built this app because to solve a very simple problem that she was having, she would match with somebody on a dating site like OkCupid or Match or Tinder or whatever.
And before actually going to meet the person in real life, she wanted to know, is this a real person?
Is this person who they say they are? Do they have a job?
I wanna kind of know about this person beforehand. And she wished that the dating sites would sort of vet the people in the dating pool, but they didn't. They just wanted to grow at all costs. So they didn't care. You can make as many accounts as you want.
And so she created a dating app that would vet people. It has an admissions process, sort of like you're applying to Harvard, but a cool company and it was a fun conversation. So hope you enjoy this episode. This is probably gonna be the last one like this, or at least on a regular basis where it's, hey, it's all about our guests telling their story from sort of start to finish.
And going forward, we're gonna be doing a lot more brainstorms with me and Sam. Hope you guys like that.
One other thing, the Facebook group is popping off right now. I think I just approved 100 members to get in. So if you go on Facebook and you just search My First Million, it's called like My First Million Startups, Investing and Side Hustles. And it's basically just a community of people who are hustling to make, get businesses off the ground and make their first million.
And I like it. I don't even, I mean, I'm in there as a participant. Some of the guests from the podcast are in there as participants, but it's just a cool community of listeners. Okay, that's it for me. Enjoy this episode. Thank you for getting us to the one million mark. And yeah, we're only halfway up.
So you're here. You, we, I don't even know how we got connected. I think we got connected on Twitter.

**Amanda Bradford** (3:37)