Every day in America, 542 people marry after meeting on eHarmony.com -- according to the online dating website. That’s 5 percent of all new U.S. marriages. On average, there’s an eHarmony wedding every 2.65 minutes, the company claims. Playing cupid in an astonishing total of 565,000 marriages worldwide are eHarmony’s co-founder, Neil Clark Warren, and his patented algorithms.

Warren, 78, is a Christian theologian who worked as a clinical psychologist for 35 years, counseling married couples. “Marriage can be very stressful,” he told Off The Cuff. “You have 1,000 different thoughts and feelings and needs and wishes around someone. And you sometimes don't get them all met.“ Based on his own practice and three years of clinical research, he formulated a set of 29 characteristics that he said define successful relationships. He called them the “Dimensions of Compatibility.” In 2000, he founded eHarmony with his son-in-law Greg Forgatch. The site was financed with a $3 million venture round from Fayez Sarofim and individual investors.

To this day, the computer matching system that eHarmony uses to introduce its single members is based on those same core traits, which include curiosity, intellect, appearance, skills, sexual passion, attitude toward children, spirituality, values, anger management and sense of humor. In other words, the things that you probably should weigh when choosing a mate, but sometimes ignore in favor of nice hair or a great smile.

Mark Zuckerberg may not have a university degree, but in order to run a successful multi-billion-dollar company, he needs people around him who do, said Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University.

When asked what she thinks about “billionaire dropouts,” Faust said she is struck by their individual success but also by how such people require support from “legions of people who have training in a variety of fields” in order to maintain that success.

“Our famous drop-out Mark Zuckerberg—who, of course, founded Facebook—he needs accountants and he needs physicists and he needs a whole range of people who have had an education of a sort that he could skip over because of his brilliant insight about Facebook,” she said. “So I think we need to think about the institutional context that enables innovation.”