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....and got a trophy wife. Chio or not?
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There is hope for all male Sinkie nerds.
Brandon Wade was a nerd.
Brandon Wade was a nerd.
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Surely can find one more chio than this.
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Study hard now, and you can get a f**kable wife later (forget about the Sinkie gals lah.)
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....and got a trophy wife. Chio or not?
He should be surrounded by at least 3 more chio bus.
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This MIT Nerd Built A 'Sugar Baby' Dating Empire That Some Say Is Simply Prostitution
JIM EDWARDS
MAR. 27, 2014, 9:34 PM
Brandon Wade has built a controversial online dating empire based around the concept that it's perfectly OK for people — men, mostly — to pay women for dates and relationships. Wade even believes in bribing women to go out with you.He's best known as the founder of SeekingArrangement.com, the website for "generous" men who are OK with paying for dates, and the women who are happy to accept the money.
He's also a master of PR and word-of-mouth marketing. Just look at his media clips: From The New York Times to Playboy, editors can't resist his unapologetic mix of sex and money.
Last September Wade started yet another dating site in his empire, which now numbers five major sites. Carrot Dating is a mobile app that literally requires men to offer bribes to women for dates, with gifts ranging from chocolate to jewelry. Wade believes it's a humorous way to kick off a relationship.
When Business Insider talked to Wade, he told us how he got into paid dating in the first place, and how he met his wife, after years of being too shy to even talk to women. He also gave us some personal pictures from his early life to illustrate his story.
This is Brandon Wade today, in a launch photo for his newest mobile app, Carrot Dating.
At MIT in the 1990s, "I was very much a nerd," he told Business Insider.
"In the very beginning I was a very lonely, shy and perhaps socially inept child who grew up being really lonely. That was really me. I was very much a nerd. My mother saw me in a great deal of pain, so she told me to focus on my goal: To study very hard, because if I was successful later on in life and I had the financial means, and I could be generous, then dating would be easier for me. I followed that advice! It worked out well!"
"I got accepted to MIT. I studied physics. Eventually I graduated with that degree as well as an MBA from the Sloan school of management. That was in 1993, the MBA was in 1995."
You might find it distasteful, but there is a reason Wade has such an odd approach to dating in both his personal life and his business:
"I was almost always shy," he once wrote. "I remember asking my dad, why I didn’t have the courage to walk up to the girl I like in school to just ask her out. My dad said, it was because I’m afraid of rejection, and the fear of being rejected was what’s keeping me away from her. He urged me to try, and reasoned that even if I did make a fool out of myself, that I would no longer be afraid since I would have nothing more to lose."
"... I mustered up courage one day and walked up to her, except while I was doing so, I tripped in front of her. I had meant to tell her while I was usually very shy, I wanted to tell her how beautiful she was, but the only words that did come out of my mouth that day was 'I am shy.'"
This is Wade with his parents and his wife.
"I got my very first kiss when I turned 21 at MIT. Beyond that first kiss it was horrific."
"I joined dating web sites and I even joined a dating agency, one of those old-fashioned ones with a video camera. I would watch other people's videos and decide if I would like to date them. The problem was I was super-nerdy."
Wade is a former software engineer who moved to New York to work as a consultant at Booz Allen. He later joined GE as a technology infrastructure manager.
And then he started his sex-for-cash empire, which includes MissTravel.com (for travel hookups), SeekingArrangement.com (for "Sugar Daddies"), Seekingmillionaire.com (for single Sugar Daddies) and WhatsYourPrice.com (where users bid on dates).
"I decided to launch Seeking Arrangement."
"[It's] where men can be generous and women can be pampered. It led to a male/female ratio of one man to every 10 women."
"On most dating sites there is in fact more men than women."
"When I created Seeking Arrangement it really was for my own benefit."
"I was using the site for several years. I was very impressed with the people I have met. I have over and over again heard from members telling me the caliber of the women they've met is incredible."
Wade's site created "100,000 Sugar Daddies."
These men are willing to finance the women they date.
SeekingArrangement has grown to over 2.7 million members worldwide.
More than 1 million university students have registered. Wade tells us there is a direct correlation between "Sugar Baby" sign-ups and increased fees for students. In 2013, the site saw a 54% increase in student sign-ups. Students are now more than 42 percent of the site’s total Sugar Baby membership.
That's why SeekingArrangement ads look like this.
A newer site, Seeking Millionaire, is for singles only.
"The difference is SeekingArrangement allows any sort of arrangement, even married men are allowed. We had quite a few users reaching out to us saying, 'The last thing I want is to be hit on by a married guy.' So it's more of a millionaire matchmaker where only single people are allowed and surprise, surprise, it is obviously not as popular as SeekingArrangement."
Since leaving MIT, Wade has paid a bit more attention to his personal style.
"On Seeking Arrangement, 40 percent are married men. The average age is 39, he makes on average $200,000 and is worth roughly $5 million. And he spends approximately $3,000 a month on pampering the Sugar Babies."
In 2013, Wade launched his MissTravel.com: "We just reached 20,000 signups this afternoon."
One of MissTravel's female users.
"The idea came about because of my love of traveling. That is really how a lot of people fall in love, by traveling. I traveled with my then-girlfriend and now wife."
On MissTravel, men advertise for travel partners — as long as they're willing to pay the airfare and hotel.
Wade met his wife, Tanya, at work. "I met her because she was interviewing for a job. She works with me now. We tied the knot on Feb. 2, 2012."
"I think all relationships start off in a very superficial manner."
Allynova, a MissTravel user.
"As humans we're controlled very much by our genes and hormones. For men it's a visual thing. That's why women upload photos that reveal their skin and show off their figures.
"Women tend to look at men in terms of how successful they are, what sort of job they have, how much money they make. ... I think it's OK to use the elements to attract the opposite sex in the very beginning."
On WhatsYourPrice.com, men bid on dates with women: "On average it's about $80 for a date."
You'll have to pay, or bid, to see more of "Creampuff."
When it launched, Gawker criticized the site as being "indistinguishable from prostitution."
Read the Gawker article.
Wade's websites are run by just 18 employees.
"I have 12 employees and I have a team of six out in the Ukraine, partially doing some development work and helping with support staff. Every single photo has to be approved. That's how we catch escorts trying to use the web site."
Here's how Wade stops hookers from using his sites.
"We have the Google Images API [software which detects when photos have been copied by someone else]. We look at what people write in their profiles."
It's paid off: "The annual revenue for Seeking Arrangement is almost $10 million. That's our biggest web site."
Why is this not prostitution?
"Because it's a relationship. Just because money is exchanged in a relationship doesn't make it prostitution. My mother stayed at home and she got an allowance from my dad. Others pamper their girlfriends with gifts and shopping and spa treatments." Wade says he has never had inquiries from prosecutors looking for lawbreakers.
He is unapologetic about the bribery nature of Carrot Dating. Here is how he describes it:
"Carrot dating is the first mobile application that combines dating with bribery ... on Carrot Dating, if you see someone you like you offer them a bribe. And if they accept the bribe, you're on your way to a first date."
Wade thinks it will become more normal to make financial exchanges in relationships more explicit.
"I think we have a situation where there's really a huge divide in this country. The older baby-boomers view this and take a much harsher view.
"I heard a woman on television criticize the site and the next night she went to dinner with her daughter. The daughter said, Mom, all my friends are doing this. You live in a different generation. As the baby-boomers fade away and the new generation grows up, this is going to become more acceptable."
Brandon and Tanya celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary this year.
JIM EDWARDS MAR. 27, 2014, 9:34 PM
Brandon Wade
Brandon Wade and his wife, Tanya.Brandon Wade has built a controversial online dating empire based around the concept that it's perfectly OK for people — men, mostly — to pay women for dates and relationships. Wade even believes in bribing women to go out with you.He's best known as the founder of SeekingArrangement.com, the website for "generous" men who are OK with paying for dates, and the women who are happy to accept the money.
He's also a master of PR and word-of-mouth marketing. Just look at his media clips: From The New York Times to Playboy, editors can't resist his unapologetic mix of sex and money.
Last September Wade started yet another dating site in his empire, which now numbers five major sites. Carrot Dating is a mobile app that literally requires men to offer bribes to women for dates, with gifts ranging from chocolate to jewelry. Wade believes it's a humorous way to kick off a relationship.
When Business Insider talked to Wade, he told us how he got into paid dating in the first place, and how he met his wife, after years of being too shy to even talk to women. He also gave us some personal pictures from his early life to illustrate his story.
This is Brandon Wade today, in a launch photo for his newest mobile app, Carrot Dating.
Carrot Dating
At MIT in the 1990s, "I was very much a nerd," he told Business Insider.
Brandon Wade
"In the very beginning I was a very lonely, shy and perhaps socially inept child who grew up being really lonely. That was really me. I was very much a nerd. My mother saw me in a great deal of pain, so she told me to focus on my goal: To study very hard, because if I was successful later on in life and I had the financial means, and I could be generous, then dating would be easier for me. I followed that advice! It worked out well!"
"I got accepted to MIT. I studied physics. Eventually I graduated with that degree as well as an MBA from the Sloan school of management. That was in 1993, the MBA was in 1995."
Brandon Wade
You might find it distasteful, but there is a reason Wade has such an odd approach to dating in both his personal life and his business:
Carrot Dating
"I was almost always shy," he once wrote. "I remember asking my dad, why I didn’t have the courage to walk up to the girl I like in school to just ask her out. My dad said, it was because I’m afraid of rejection, and the fear of being rejected was what’s keeping me away from her. He urged me to try, and reasoned that even if I did make a fool out of myself, that I would no longer be afraid since I would have nothing more to lose."
"... I mustered up courage one day and walked up to her, except while I was doing so, I tripped in front of her. I had meant to tell her while I was usually very shy, I wanted to tell her how beautiful she was, but the only words that did come out of my mouth that day was 'I am shy.'"
Brandon Wade
This is Wade with his parents and his wife.
"I got my very first kiss when I turned 21 at MIT. Beyond that first kiss it was horrific."
Brandon Wade
"I joined dating web sites and I even joined a dating agency, one of those old-fashioned ones with a video camera. I would watch other people's videos and decide if I would like to date them. The problem was I was super-nerdy."
Brandon Wade
Wade is a former software engineer who moved to New York to work as a consultant at Booz Allen. He later joined GE as a technology infrastructure manager.
Brandon Wade / Twitter
And then he started his sex-for-cash empire, which includes MissTravel.com (for travel hookups), SeekingArrangement.com (for "Sugar Daddies"), Seekingmillionaire.com (for single Sugar Daddies) and WhatsYourPrice.com (where users bid on dates).
"I decided to launch Seeking Arrangement."
Screengrab
On SeekingArrangement, women search for men willing to pay them for dates."[It's] where men can be generous and women can be pampered. It led to a male/female ratio of one man to every 10 women."
"On most dating sites there is in fact more men than women."
"When I created Seeking Arrangement it really was for my own benefit."
Brandon Wade
"I was using the site for several years. I was very impressed with the people I have met. I have over and over again heard from members telling me the caliber of the women they've met is incredible."
Wade's site created "100,000 Sugar Daddies."
These men are willing to finance the women they date.
SeekingArrangement has grown to over 2.7 million members worldwide.
More than 1 million university students have registered. Wade tells us there is a direct correlation between "Sugar Baby" sign-ups and increased fees for students. In 2013, the site saw a 54% increase in student sign-ups. Students are now more than 42 percent of the site’s total Sugar Baby membership.
That's why SeekingArrangement ads look like this.
SeekingArrangement
A newer site, Seeking Millionaire, is for singles only.
"The difference is SeekingArrangement allows any sort of arrangement, even married men are allowed. We had quite a few users reaching out to us saying, 'The last thing I want is to be hit on by a married guy.' So it's more of a millionaire matchmaker where only single people are allowed and surprise, surprise, it is obviously not as popular as SeekingArrangement."
Since leaving MIT, Wade has paid a bit more attention to his personal style.
Brandon Wade
"On Seeking Arrangement, 40 percent are married men. The average age is 39, he makes on average $200,000 and is worth roughly $5 million. And he spends approximately $3,000 a month on pampering the Sugar Babies."
In 2013, Wade launched his MissTravel.com: "We just reached 20,000 signups this afternoon."
One of MissTravel's female users.
"The idea came about because of my love of traveling. That is really how a lot of people fall in love, by traveling. I traveled with my then-girlfriend and now wife."
On MissTravel, men advertise for travel partners — as long as they're willing to pay the airfare and hotel.
Wade met his wife, Tanya, at work. "I met her because she was interviewing for a job. She works with me now. We tied the knot on Feb. 2, 2012."
Brandon Wade
"I think all relationships start off in a very superficial manner."
Allynova, a MissTravel user.
"As humans we're controlled very much by our genes and hormones. For men it's a visual thing. That's why women upload photos that reveal their skin and show off their figures.
"Women tend to look at men in terms of how successful they are, what sort of job they have, how much money they make. ... I think it's OK to use the elements to attract the opposite sex in the very beginning."
On WhatsYourPrice.com, men bid on dates with women: "On average it's about $80 for a date."
You'll have to pay, or bid, to see more of "Creampuff."
When it launched, Gawker criticized the site as being "indistinguishable from prostitution."
WhatsYourPrice.com
Read the Gawker article.
Wade's websites are run by just 18 employees.
"I have 12 employees and I have a team of six out in the Ukraine, partially doing some development work and helping with support staff. Every single photo has to be approved. That's how we catch escorts trying to use the web site."
Here's how Wade stops hookers from using his sites.
LiketheMermaid.com
"We have the Google Images API [software which detects when photos have been copied by someone else]. We look at what people write in their profiles."
It's paid off: "The annual revenue for Seeking Arrangement is almost $10 million. That's our biggest web site."
Why is this not prostitution?
"Because it's a relationship. Just because money is exchanged in a relationship doesn't make it prostitution. My mother stayed at home and she got an allowance from my dad. Others pamper their girlfriends with gifts and shopping and spa treatments." Wade says he has never had inquiries from prosecutors looking for lawbreakers.
He is unapologetic about the bribery nature of Carrot Dating. Here is how he describes it:
Carrot Dating
"Carrot dating is the first mobile application that combines dating with bribery ... on Carrot Dating, if you see someone you like you offer them a bribe. And if they accept the bribe, you're on your way to a first date."
Wade thinks it will become more normal to make financial exchanges in relationships more explicit.
Brandon Wade
Brandon and Tanya."I think we have a situation where there's really a huge divide in this country. The older baby-boomers view this and take a much harsher view.
"I heard a woman on television criticize the site and the next night she went to dinner with her daughter. The daughter said, Mom, all my friends are doing this. You live in a different generation. As the baby-boomers fade away and the new generation grows up, this is going to become more acceptable."
Brandon and Tanya celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary this year.
Brandon Wade
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I would rather be Brandon Wade.
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I would rather be Brandon Wade.
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That's more like it.
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trophy wife indeed.........cradle robber too............low self-esteem so need Angmoh wife to show off.......
they don't seem like a real couple.........guy looks gay-ish.........
if divorce, guy sure die jialat jialat........Angmoh will grab as much as possible......
they don't seem like a real couple.........guy looks gay-ish.........
if divorce, guy sure die jialat jialat........Angmoh will grab as much as possible......
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fantastic idea. he gets the money and the gals.
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that photo of him and the 3 girls looks like a scene from Brazzers or Naughty America. 
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sinkies always bash each other
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Sex Sells....
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