Podcast Go Fire Yourself

Interview with Lori Cheek (founder of Cheek’d — cheekd.com) When Lori Cheek was out to lunch with a colleague six years ago, the idea for her revolutionary online dating business hit her like a freight train. At the time, she was an architect in New York City working on projects in Paris for companies like Christian Dior. Not a bad gig, but Lori decided to give it all up in pursuit of her newfound passion. Today, Lori is no longer building structures, she’s building relationships. Lori is the Founder and CEO of Cheekd.com — the reverse engineered dating site coined by the New York Times as “the next generation of online dating.” Other press for Cheek’d includes the American Express Open Forum pegging Lori as “The Digital Dating Disruptor” and “One of the Top 10 CEOs to Watch in 2013.” Not bad for a small town Kentucky girl, huh? In this GFY episode, you’ll get the inside scoop of what it’s like to finance, market, and grow a success