Fighting Sexism & Winning: The Founder Behind The $1Billion Dollar Tech Company Bumble

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

November 14, 2022

Duration

1h 32m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble and the first self-made female billionaire on the planet. In this episode, she reveals after leaving Tinder in explosive circumstances, the injustices she faced drove her on to build a better kind of dating app. Topics: 0:00 Intro 02:20 Early context 07:07 How do we follow what we really want? 11:28 What did you want to be when you grew up? 15:58 Your background education 17:30 After university 19:24 Moving into the working world 21:49 The importance of leaning in 24:08 Early marketing tactics for tinder 29:59 Naivety 39:56 What was Tinder like in the early days? 49:34 Your departure from Tinder 58:02 When was your darkest day? 01:06:12 Bumbles current success 01:09:46 Balance 01:13:49 Why did bumble win? 01:19:35 Leadership 01:22:35 How do you staying harmony with yourself 01:24:58 The importance of being vulnerable as a leader 01:27:12 What does a successful 10 years look like for bumble? 01:30:04 The last guest question Whitney: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3UUZR0P Twitter: http://bit.ly/3UWNstj Bumble: http://bit.ly/3EtAgXi Wait list for The Diary: https://bit.ly/3fUcF8q Join this channel to get access to perks: https://bit.ly/3Dpmgx5 Listen on: Apple podcast - https://apple.co/3TTvxDf Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3VX3yEw Follow: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3CXkF0d Twitter: https://bit.ly/3ss7pM0 Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3z3CSYM Telegram: https://g2ul0.app.link/SBExclusiveCommun Intel - http://bit.ly/3UVp3UC Mercedes-Benz - https://bit.ly/3yXTQI1 Huel - https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Amex - https://bit.ly/3TATNKc

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Whitney Wolfe Herd

  guest

• Steven Bartlett

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Whitney Wolfe Herd and Steven Bartlett, Fighting Sexism & Winning: The Founder Behind The $1Billion Dollar Tech Company Bumble explores whitney Wolfe Herd: Rewriting Dating, Defying Sexism, Building Bumble’s Billions Whitney Wolfe Herd charts her journey from growing up amid rigid gender norms in Utah, through the traumatic fallout of leaving Tinder, to founding Bumble as a woman-first technology company now worth billions.

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