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The League wants to be dating app for The Elite
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 13, 2014 | Natalie Kitroeff

Posted on 09/15/2014 6:59:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Is Tinder not selective enough for you? Is OkCupid turning up dates that don't meet your standards? If so, you might want to look into The League, a new dating app recently released by a Stanford business school graduate.

"You're smart, good-looking & successful. You don't need a dating app to get a date - you're too popular as it is. But you should join The League," reads the app's website. The site invites users to download the app and join the waiting list for its "private alpha." Once live, it promises to exclude all of the chaff you'd find in those other dating apps, allowing only the very best people to meet each other.

The service is described as a dating app for the elite - and elitists - in a post that someone unaffiliated with the app put on the Facebook page for students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Friday. The app's founder, Amanda Bradford, earned an MBA from Stanford this year. Bradford declined to comment, but a spokeswoman for the app said it would become operational for people in San Francisco in a few weeks and that more than 300 people are on its waiting list in that city. In the New York area, nearly 150 people had signed up by Friday evening.

"If you took the top 20% of Tinder ... you'd get The League," reads the post. The current version of the app asks you to sign in with your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts and "reserve your spot" for the alpha version....

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society; The Guild
KEYWORDS: dating; internet; matchmaking; romance; snobs

1 posted on 09/15/2014 6:59:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Dating site for yuppies. Wow what a concept.......


2 posted on 09/15/2014 7:04:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do they have an app for lesbian gay bisexual and transgendered yuppies?? If not they my get sued......


3 posted on 09/15/2014 7:07:04 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A-HoleMingle.com


4 posted on 09/15/2014 7:32:05 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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Hey! Those of us who are "chaff" strongly object to this blatent morphological and picunery discrimination!

Who do I sue again? (at least they can pay up)

6 posted on 09/15/2014 7:40:16 PM PDT by lafroste (matthewharbert.wix.com/matthew-harbert)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you’re not into yoga,
If you have half a brain

Yeah baby! ... my great aunt called it the ‘Penis Colada Song’.


7 posted on 09/15/2014 8:23:47 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Amanda Bradford, earned an MBA from Stanford this year. Bradford declined to comment, but a spokeswoman for the app said...

LOL, I don't care who you are, that there is funny!

You know how Tinder lets you swipe faces? Mandy's App lets you swipe through photos of upraised nostrils... Bwahahaha!

8 posted on 09/15/2014 9:02:27 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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