VANITY FAIR - Aug 20 - On her podcast, Paired by the People, Lakshmi Rengarajan reframes the setup as the more intentional analogue to dating apps. Having released six episodes since its inception in September, Paired is like a social-experiment capsule collection where Rengarajan takes her seven years of experience in the dating industry to set people up. Lakshmi was Match.com's director of event design for two years, and then worked on Match, ourtime.com, blackpeoplemeet.com, and helped launch the app BLK. She had always been interested very specifically in the art of the setup. Not matchmaking. "The matchmaking industry is a whole other beast and actually quite predatory. I was very interested in people who set people up without any kind of monetary incentive," she says. Each episode of Paired starts by introducing the listener to an existing couple, and they're the ones who go through candidate profiles and discuss who to set up.
by Delia Cai
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