David DeAngelo: Where Is Double Your Dating Founder Eben Pagan Now?

For a generation of men who discovered dating advice on the early internet, David DeAngelo was one of the biggest names in the game. Long before dating coaches were everywhere on YouTube, TikTok, podcasts, and Instagram, DeAngelo was selling ebooks, audio programs, interviews, seminars, and video courses built around a simple promise: learn how attraction works, stop acting needy, become more confident, and get better results with women.

But David DeAngelo was a pen name. The man behind the brand was Eben Pagan—and after building one of the most influential commercial dating-advice businesses of the 2000s, Pagan gradually shifted his public identity away from dating and toward entrepreneurship, information products, productivity, business growth, and wealth education.

So where is David DeAngelo now? The short answer is: David DeAngelo became Eben Pagan again. The dating persona became part of his business history, while Pagan’s current public-facing work is focused primarily on helping entrepreneurs build businesses, products, systems, wealth, and opportunity.

Quick Answer: Where Is David DeAngelo Now?

As of 2026, Eben Pagan’s active public website is centered on business and personal-performance education. His current offerings include programs such as Digital Product Blueprint, Virtual Coach, Wake Up Productive, and Self-Made Wealth, along with his book and training around opportunity, entrepreneurship, and business growth.

The old David DeAngelo identity is no longer his main public brand. But Pagan still openly references Double Your Dating in his business training as the first information-products company that launched his larger entrepreneurial career.

Who Was David DeAngelo?

David DeAngelo emerged during the early-2000s expansion of the online pickup and men’s dating-advice world. His flagship product was Double Your Dating, a dating-advice brand for men that became closely associated with concepts such as Cocky & Funny, non-neediness, confidence, teasing, social calibration, and the phrase “attraction is not a choice.”

In his own later business training, Pagan explained that he looked at the broader relationship market and noticed a gap: plenty of material existed about relationships, but fewer mainstream products addressed the earlier problem—how a man gets the date in the first place. He carved out that narrower need and built a category around dating advice for men.

Pagan has also said that he launched Double Your Dating in 2001 with a simple ebook. According to his own business-training material, the ebook began generating meaningful monthly revenue quickly, and the business grew dramatically after he developed a stronger free-content and lead-generation funnel.

Why Double Your Dating Became So Influential

To understand why DeAngelo mattered, you have to remember what the internet looked like in the early 2000s. There was no TikTok dating advice industry. YouTube did not exist yet. Tinder had not been invented. Instagram did not exist. Most men encountered dating advice through books, forums, email newsletters, niche websites, audio programs, seminars, and long-form sales pages.

DeAngelo was unusually good at packaging complicated social ideas into memorable language. “Cocky & Funny” was easy to remember. “Attraction is not a choice” was provocative. His newsletter format gave readers an ongoing stream of advice rather than a single book. His Interviews With Dating Gurus style of programming also exposed customers to a wider ecosystem of coaches, psychologists, authors, and dating personalities.

Whether a man agreed with every DeAngelo idea or not, the business helped move pickup and attraction theory from obscure internet subcultures toward a much larger commercial audience.

The Business Behind the Dating Guru

One of the most interesting parts of the David DeAngelo story is that the dating business was also an advanced direct-response marketing machine.

Pagan has described how Double Your Dating used free educational content to attract men who were searching for help with rejection and dating. Instead of immediately forcing every visitor into a purchase, the business offered useful free material first, built trust through email, and then introduced paid products.

That model—search traffic, lead magnet, email sequence, information product, higher-ticket training—became common across the internet-marketing industry. In hindsight, Double Your Dating was not only a dating-advice company. It was also an early example of a sophisticated digital education funnel.

From Double Your Dating to Get Altitude

By the late 2000s, Pagan had begun teaching entrepreneurs the business principles he had used to build his own companies. One of the major brands associated with that transition was Get Altitude.

In a 2015 interview discussing Get Altitude, Pagan described the vision as helping entrepreneurs shorten the time required to build successful, profitable businesses. The Get Altitude ecosystem covered the systems he believed entrepreneurs needed to grow companies and improve performance.

Older promotional material also places Get Altitude’s major business-growth training around 2008, when Pagan was already shifting from being known primarily as “David DeAngelo the dating guru” toward “Eben Pagan the entrepreneur and business educator.”

The transition makes sense. The dating company had forced Pagan to learn copywriting, email marketing, lead generation, product creation, customer psychology, virtual teams, positioning, and direct-response strategy. He eventually began selling those lessons directly to entrepreneurs.

What Is Eben Pagan Doing in 2026?

Today, Pagan’s active public brand is clearly business-first. His official website organizes his training around four broad goals: starting a business, growing a business, improving productivity, and building wealth.

Current programs promoted on his site include:

• Digital Product Blueprint — training around creating and selling digital products.
• Virtual Coach — building a coaching or expertise-based business that can operate online.
• Wake Up Productive — productivity, focus, and getting more meaningful work done.
• Self-Made Wealth — habits and thinking associated with long-term wealth building.

His current site also promotes his book Opportunity, which focuses on identifying, creating, and taking advantage of opportunities.

In other words, the modern Eben Pagan brand is much broader than dating. It is about entrepreneurship, personal leverage, digital education, productivity, opportunity, and wealth.

So What Happened to Double Your Dating?

Double Your Dating remains historically important, but it is no longer the center of Pagan’s public identity. The old David DeAngelo material is also considerably less visible online than it was during the brand’s peak years. Even current discussions among longtime dating-advice readers frequently revolve around trying to locate old programs, interviews, and course material.

That does not mean the brand disappeared from history. Pagan himself still cites Double Your Dating when teaching business strategy. In fact, one of the most useful things about the brand today may be studying it from two directions at once: as an influential dating system and as an influential internet-marketing business.

What From David DeAngelo Still Works in 2026?

DigitallyDating’s view is that DeAngelo’s material should neither be worshipped as timeless law nor dismissed because it came from an earlier era. The useful move is to separate durable principles from dated mechanics.

1. Non-Neediness Still Matters

One of the strongest DeAngelo themes was that desperation damages attraction. That still translates well. A man with a full life, standards, options, emotional control, and the ability to walk away from one-sided situations generally presents better than a man seeking constant validation.

2. Humor and Playfulness Still Matter

The label “Cocky & Funny” can sound dated when treated like a canned routine, but playful teasing, self-amusement, humor, and emotional lightness remain useful social skills. The modern version should feel natural rather than performed.

3. Pedestalizing Women Is Still a Bad Strategy

DeAngelo repeatedly pushed men to stop treating attractive women as if beauty automatically made them superior. That underlying principle still has value: attraction works better when a man maintains self-respect and evaluates compatibility instead of trying to earn approval from someone he barely knows.

4. Build the Man, Not Just the Line

At his best, DeAngelo’s material was not only about verbal tricks. It encouraged men to improve confidence, social skills, identity, and lifestyle. That connects directly with the modern men’s self-improvement side of the manosphere.

What Has Aged Poorly?

Some parts of old-school dating advice need translation rather than literal repetition.

Broad claims about “female psychology” can become too universal. Women are not one personality type. Techniques designed for long email exchanges or early dating websites may not map cleanly to Tinder, Hinge, Instagram, WhatsApp, or modern texting. And “Cocky & Funny” becomes annoying quickly when a man turns every interaction into teasing or treats a memorized personality as a substitute for social awareness.

The modern version of DeAngelo’s strongest ideas is simpler: be confident without begging for approval, stay playful without becoming obnoxious, maintain standards, build an interesting life, and learn to read the actual woman and situation in front of you.

The Marketing Lesson May Be as Important as the Dating Lesson

There is another reason the David DeAngelo story belongs on DigitallyDating: Pagan’s career demonstrates how enormous the early dating-advice business became and how sophisticated its marketing could be.

He identified an underserved category, created memorable language, built an email list, gave away useful free material, sold an entry-level information product, created higher-value programs, interviewed other experts, and built a brand that readers still remember decades later.

Then he took the business knowledge learned from the dating niche and turned it into a second career teaching entrepreneurs.

That makes David DeAngelo more than a classic dating guru. He is also one of the clearest examples of the intersection between game, information marketing, personal branding, and the early creator economy.

Where Are They Now? Verdict

David DeAngelo did not simply disappear. Eben Pagan outgrew the pen name as his public business expanded beyond dating. The man who built Double Your Dating became a business educator teaching digital products, coaching, productivity, opportunity, and wealth.

For students of dating history, Double Your Dating remains worth understanding because of its influence on men’s dating advice, its memorable attraction concepts, and the massive commercial ecosystem it helped normalize. But the most interesting part of the story may be what happened next: one of the biggest dating gurus of the early internet used the skills he developed selling dating advice to build an entirely different career.

Sources & Further Reading

• Eben Pagan — official website and current training
• Eben Pagan Training — discussion of Double Your Dating and category creation
• Noobpreneur — Eben Pagan interview discussing Double Your Dating and Get Altitude

This article is part of DigitallyDating’s Where Are They Now? series, tracking the classic dating gurus, authors, coaches, and systems that shaped modern game.