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Bill Alena

Founder & CEO, High Intent Media Group. Dating Partners' parent company.

Twenty-five years in online dating, on both sides of the table. Operator, investor, publisher, and now the platform partners build on.

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Bill Alena, Founder and CEO of High Intent Media Group
Bill Alena · Founder & CEO, High Intent Media Group
The record

Twenty-five years, four seats.

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myYearbookChief Revenue Officer

Joined as Chief Revenue Officer and built revenue from zero to more than $100 million.

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The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET)

Ran all monetization at public-company scale, through four acquisitions.

03

Social Discovery GroupChief Investment & Growth Officer

Grew revenue from $200M to $350M; led the M&A practice and a dating-only venture fund.

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High Intent Media GroupFounder & CEO

Honest industry news, services, capital, and the platform. Dating Partners is the platform division: the operating system for long-term dating brands.

Why the guides read the way they do

Every rule on Dating Partners, the 50% member-level revenue share, ID verification, mandatory human moderation, biweekly payouts, comes from twenty-five years of watching which dating businesses last and which burn their members. The knowledge base on this site is the playbook we run ourselves, written down.

Guides by Bill Alena

The full library.

Fundamentals13 guides
Platform Comparisons31 guides
Business Models10 guides
Operations and Compliance9 guides
Growth and Marketing11 guides
Glossary13 guides
How this library is maintained

Editorial standards.

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Written from operating experience, not aggregated from search results.

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Every guide shows its last update; comparisons show a last-verified date.

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Corrections and challenges welcome: partners@datingpartners.com.

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