Meet Your Political Soulmate with this Wharton Startup’s #DNC2016 Game

Twine Cofounders Joseph Quan and Nikhil Srivastava.

Looking for your political soulmate amid a sea of Democrats? How ’bout your political enemy?

Twine, a startup founded by a pair of Wharton MBAs, wants to hook you up. Take their survey and they’ll connect you with the three people who are most and least like you, politically. (And a random group of participants will win a boatload of cheesesteaks, because Philly.)

“We’ve taken inspiration from Airbnb’s 2008 DNC publicity stunt,” said Twine cofounder Joseph Quan.

He’s talking about how Airbnb recognized the shortage of hotel rooms in Denver and turned it into a business opportunity for the then-fledgling startup. He hopes Twine, which he bills as “a way to serendipitously discover people with similar interests,” can ride the wave of the Democratic National Convention.

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