Will Bunker

Change Agent, Designer, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Idea generator, Parent, Technologist

Will Bunker is co-founder of the online dating service that became Match.com, the world’s largest personals site. In 1996 Will and a partner raised $90,000 from angel investors to start online personals pioneer One-and-Only.com. Will designed the software and developed the hardware infrastructure for the site, which grew to 4.5 million monthly unique visitors and annualized subscription revenues of $14 million, outperforming Yahoo Personals and other competitors. In late 1999 they sold One-and-Only for $45 million to Ticketmaster Online/City Search, where it was rebranded Match.com. Following his exit from Match.com in 2000, Will acquired Click Patrol, a service that managed key word advertising for Overture and others, which he sold to a competitor in 2002. He then moved to his native Arkansas and acquired an industrial catfish farming operation, which he expanded into a more efficient, highly profitable business. In 2004 he and Dan Owen formed White Space Ventures and in 2007 he relocated to Portola Valley, CA so he could utilize the infrastructure and talent pool in the Bay Area. Will received a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1992. Prior to his career in technology, Will performed in a variety of management assignments around the world for Nelson Bunker Hunt’s international mining group.

Learning new things, and figuring out why some ideas spread and make a difference and others wither on the vine.

Databases, Industrial Engineering, Ruby on Rails, Web Programming