Interview · moment 3 of 18
Meeting the Raya Girl and Growing Up Middle Class
from The Manor-Born · #6
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4 minGuest
Dan explains growing up middle class in Colorado, breaking up with his ex, and getting recruited onto the exclusive dating app Raya by Jared Freid, calling it 'Illuminati Tinder,' before matching with a wealthy Manhattan woman.
- 5:44Tim broke up with his long-term girlfriend last summer and joined a dating app.
- 6:19Growing up middle class meant your parents losing their job would be catastrophic, but most people his generation were in that same position.
- 6:48His first girlfriend when he moved to New York was from the Upper East Side, and her family had real wealth from her father's job and smart financial moves.
- 7:09The last girl he dated came from a genuinely wealthy family in real estate development, wealthy enough that they could disappear if she got upset at him.
- 7:29Jared Fried told him about Raya, an exclusive dating app; Tim initially thought he meant Ray O's, a restaurant in Harlem with great sauce.
- 8:16Raya requires either a large media following or significant online presence like Twitter, and they research you—it's not just regular Tinder.
- 8:34Jared Fried called Raya "Illuminati Tinder."
- 9:01Al Madrigal helped him put his profile together on Raya.
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