11. Sam Yagan, Entrepreneur

Sam Yagan is a Syrian based American Internet Entrepreneur and co-founder of OkCupid - the fastest growing online dating sight that pairs people on the basis of their answers to much mind boggling variety of questions. He is presently the CEO of the world’s largest e-dating site Match.com and had also started sparknotes.com, an educational website.

Instilled with the skill of entrepreneurship at a very young age, Sam says, “Starting my first company (Sparknotes.com) right out of college, I didn’t know what I was doing…now all high school and college students love it, but at the same time, it was a crazy idea to turn down a job to go start an internet company. Since then deciding to selling a company…we built OKCupid into being one of the best dating sites out there. When you’re an entrepreneur and you sell your company, that is a career decision. Becoming a part of Match.com and part of IAC was something that was a big move.”

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