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Business Daily meets: Paul Carrick Brunson

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We found out why the dating guru swapped a career in investment banking to become a matchmaker.

Now famous for his role in the hit TV show ‘Married at First Sight’, Paul Carrick Brunson explains how his current career path wasn’t always written in the stars. But a combination of business acumen, the backing of his partner and a touch of luck led to a lucrative trade in matchmaking.

He explains his core business principles and gives his top tips for discussing money in a relationship.

(Image: Paul Carrick Brunson. Credit: Chris Bethell)

Presenter: Devina Gupta Producer: Sam Clack

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and Namaste. I'm Divina Gupta. And in today's edition of Business Daily Meets, we'll hear from an entrepreneur who turned his back on investment banking to start a career in matchmaking.

0:15.6

I remember sitting down in my kitchen table talking to friends and family and they all unanimously said, don't become a

0:21.4

matchmaker. It'll be the worst mistake of your life.

0:24.0

Paul Carrick Brunson is perhaps best known for being one of the relationship experts on the

0:30.3

globally syndicated reality TV show married at first sight. He's also head of global research

0:37.4

for the dating app Tinder,

0:39.6

which is used by 75 million people worldwide.

0:44.0

He'll tell us why starting small is the key to winning big in business.

0:49.6

Most of us go after, I want the largest market in the world.

0:52.1

No, no, no.

0:52.8

What's the smallest market that

0:54.9

could sustain you? And get his top tips to discussing money with a partner. Difficult conversations

1:01.9

require efforts. When people say... Make the effort. Exactly. When people say relationships are

1:06.8

work, that's the work. That's all coming up on this edition of Business Daily Meads.

1:19.0

Paul Bronson certainly has a head for business, a serial entrepreneur who counts the global

1:25.6

media personality, Oprah Winffrey among his friends.

1:29.9

But people certainly in the US and UK probably know him best for matters of the heart.

1:36.3

No rub on the shoulder, no hug, there's been nothing. Zero affection. Zero.

1:43.6

That's just how I am.

1:45.0

Paul in The Love It or Hate It, hit show married at first sight there.

1:52.0

Away from the TV drama, it's the dating app business that Paul is delving in, in his role as global head of research for one of the biggest platforms, Tinder.

2:04.0

If you look at the love business, it's a multi-billion dollar global industry, mostly led by

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