Hinge CEO: The Truth About Dating Apps, Attraction And Finding Love In 2024!

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

February 15, 2024

Duration

1h 26m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Justin McLeod is the CEO and founder of the dating app Hinge, which has over 20 million users and sets up a date every 3 seconds. 00:00 Intro 02:16 My Addiction & Going to Rehab 05:27 12 Step Programme for Addiction 07:45 How My Love Experiences Influenced My Entrepreneurial Journey 12:31 Founding Hinge 15:55 How Do We Know Which Ideas to Go After? 19:00 When Did the App Form? 23:44 Tinder and How It Impacted Hinge 27:37 The Interview That Changed My Life 34:23 The New Era for Hinge 37:05 How to Be Successful on Hinge 39:05 What Is Hinge Labs? 43:00 The Worst Things to Do in Dating Apps 44:12 Advice for People Going on Loads Of Dates 47:39 Dating Apps Want People to Stay Single to Have More Customers… 49:32 How Has the Dating World Changed in the Last Few Years? 50:40 Hinge First Principles 51:57 The Importance of Taking Risks 01:00:47 How to Have Great Company Culture 01:17:25 Biggest Hiring Mistakes 01:19:51 What the Future of Dating Apps Looks Like 01:21:42 The Last Guest Question Are you ready to think like a CEO? Gain access to the 100 CEOs newsletter here: ⁠https://bit.ly/100-ceos-newsletter Get tickets to The Business & Life Speaking Tour: https://stevenbartlett.com/tour/ Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb WHOOP: https://join.whoop.com/en-uk/CEO

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Justin McLeod

  guest

• Steven Bartlett

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Justin McLeod and Steven Bartlett, Hinge CEO: The Truth About Dating Apps, Attraction And Finding Love In 2024! explores hinge CEO Reveals How Dating Apps, Vulnerability And AI Transform Love Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, explains how his personal struggles with addiction, love, and loneliness directly shaped Hinge’s mission to be the dating app that is “designed to be deleted.” He recounts Hinge’s multiple reboots, from a clunky Facebook app to a swipe-based product, and finally to a relationship‑focused platform optimized for getting users on quality dates, not endless engagement.

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