'So through the Graduate Council and the provost’s office, we’ve got a funded project to build a website that would sort of power a speed-dating event. When I joined the Harvard Graduate Council, I realized that there were a lot of people that felt the way that I felt. 'I just was so intrigued to meet people at the med school and what research they were doing, and at the business school and at the law school. “What I started to realize was it was very challenging to meet students from different graduate campuses there are 12 in total,' he said.
As a grad student, he noticed that people were isolated. The app is free, but for a price ($4.99 a week), users can become premium members, which gets them more information and options.Ĭohen-Aslatei, who has a master’s in management from Harvard, got his start in the dating industry while he was in school there. He says membership grows by hundreds a day. But Cohen-Aslatei says it’s just a start. That’s a small sample Bumble, for instance, reports to have millions of users. and New York) with a pool of thousands in each location. Now S’More is in three cities (also Washington D.C.
