Dylan has been a Launch PM with the Marriage Pact since 2020. He’s launched 18 schools, impacting ~72,000 students across the country.

What was the Stanford Marriage Pact like when it was on campus? Can you describe it?

I remember that feeling of huddling around like my laptop in my room with a bunch of my friends like, looking at our emails and seeing who we got, and then like trying to stalk the people that we got. But that whole sort of buzz was really exciting. For me, it was the first fall quarter of my first year of college. And that was a pretty big defining moment.

What have you gotten out of the PM program?

Concrete skills, like getting better at design or developing a product sense. But more high level, what I got out of the program is just working on something with a team that actually made an impact we could see. We could translate impact to numbers, signups, and stories of people getting matched at the schools we've launched. Before, a lot of the work I would do in school was like, okay, I get a grade. And that's cool. But this is the first time the work has translated to impacting people.

If you were to send a message to your next Marriage Pact match, what would you like it to say?

I always use this line and it worked well for me, for three Marriage Pacts. I always just say “What's your ring size?” It always works. Like, I always get a response back.

On that note, what’s the cheesiest pick-up line you’ve ever heard?

It's not cheesy, but it's dumb. My friend said it last night. His go-to line is like, “How much does a polar bear weigh?” And then they're like—”What?” And he's like, “Enough to break the ice.”

Ok, let’s answer a Marriage Pact question. “The phrase I love you is a promise”—1 to 7, strongly disagree to strongly agree.

Two or three. I don't think that the phrase “I love you” in and of itself is a promise, and a lot of people define love as a feeling—for me it's action. So when someone says I love you, they are willing to put action or to do things as a result. Just a phrase in and of itself is not a promise enough.