Grindr CEO @georgearison on why AI can finally fix dating apps: "If you look at the AI company's landscape, there's actually very little consumer-facing stuff that's being built. It's all enterprise." "For AI to be really good, you need data, and there's very little data that startups can have on the consumer side. Existing companies that have the data, if they were willing to innovate and try new stuff, they could create really unimaginable things. Things that previously were like science fiction." "If you look at a typical dating app profile, most of it's filled out from the perspective of what does the person filling it out think the other people want to see rather than what's actually true about themselves. You're not presenting reality. You're presenting something other than that, which is why so many of the connections that happen then don't go anywhere." "With AI, you can solve that because you can go deep into what a person actually is like based on what they're talking about in all the conversations in your product. Then start recommending people to each other based on what's true in reality versus what might be appearing on the surface layer of the profile." @Grindr @creatine_cycle