By night, Taly works to build Blink, a virtual blind speed dating app inspired by a revelatory experience at a  blackout restaurant. Making connections with strangers based on  conversation alone, free of looks-driven assumptions, sparked the  thought: would people date a wider variety of people and find more  satisfying relationships if they were able to make an emotional  connection with someone before swiping left? In 2020, Taly finally began turning the vision into reality and hopes to change online dating’s looks-first paradigm and, one day, move the concept  beyond the dating world. 

By day, Taly works  at an AI-powered legal tech company as a Product Manager, having  previously worked as a lawyer at a NYC law firm and as a legal  operations professional at Netflix and Datadog. Taly earned her Bachelor's degree from New York University in 2011 and her Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School in 2015.

Where to find Blink Date:

Website: www.theblinkdate.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/theblinkdate

Twitter: www.twitter.com/theblinkdate

Facebook: www.facebook.com/theblinkdate

TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@theblinkdate

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