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The Bert Show

He Lost His Wife To The Dating Site HE Invented!

The Bert Show

Pionaire Podcasting

Comedy, Society & Culture, News, Entertainment News

4.34.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

He invented online dating and it came back to bite him in a big way! Here's how the founder of Match lost his WIFE to a man she met on the site!

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0:00.0

Hello you. It's Glow Time on Magic Radio.

0:05.6

Join me, Gokwan, at breakfast.

0:08.5

With me, Harriet Scott.

0:10.3

We're on Magic Radio with Nikki Chapman, Gabby Roslyn, and me, Mel Gedroich.

0:15.7

And what a team we are.

0:19.1

We're all on Magic Radio, playing the best variety.

0:22.6

From the 80s to now.

0:25.2

It's Glow Time on Magic Radio.

0:27.2

The rest is still a riddle.

0:32.1

The Bert Show.

0:33.4

The most ironic twist of a story in internet history.

0:36.8

I thought this was fascinating and a beautiful

0:38.9

example of No Good Deed goes unpunished. So back in the early 90s, 1993, to be exact, there

0:45.5

was a guy named Gary Kreman who had this idea to create a website called Match.com. And at that time,

0:53.1

he was looking for love and he felt like it was pretty

0:55.6

much impossible online. And he felt like women were overwhelmed with how many men were online.

1:01.2

And he wanted to create a situation where it would be a little easier, not only to match people,

1:05.6

but for women to be able to focus more on the men that they like as opposed to all of the men that

1:09.4

were bothering him. So he came up with this idea to create match.com. He took out $2,500 of his credit, and he

1:16.1

bought the site. And then eventually the site led at that point to become pretty popular at that

1:21.2

time. And it was a thousand people. That's how it all started. And that's when he knew he kind of

1:26.5

had something. And eventually

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