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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Hinge comes up on How I Built This, Lenny's Podcast, My First Million, the Knowledge Project, TBPN
AI Apps Are Making $10K/Month. Here's Exactly How.
- ▶ 20:40 Greg Isenberg Like, you know, what is Hinge?
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:16 Anish Acharya yeah, the hinge thing, yeah.
Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:02 unnamed speaker Rest in peace, Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Dryer bars, restaurants, etc.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 1:02:48 Alex Kantrowitz Someone just posted a screenshot of their hinge and it's like an full inbox of people only writing may I meet you.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 28:59 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products.
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 2:38 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products.
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 12:42 Benedict Evans And you could say, you know, Instagram is like, you know, like hinge of the specialized version of Instagram, which is kind of true, but also not. 3 times in the scene
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products.
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 2:43 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear.
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
- ▶ 0:58 Guy Raz Joining me this week is Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:59 Guy Raz Great question for Justin McLeod, because you had to do that with Hinge, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Guy Raz He's the founder and CEO of the popular dating app, Hinge, and we are taking your calls. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:55 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking calls with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod, and let's bring in our next caller. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:47 Guy Raz That's Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge.
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 3:12 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products.
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:20 Jason Lemkin And when everyone's caught up in feeling this is the time to IPO, I think people are going to try to go, even if they could have six months ago, even if this data shows, hey, Mountain Hinge, Circle, Corwee, Vitoro, even SailPoint all could…
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:00 unnamed speaker Meaningful economic value for yourself, for your investors, for your fund, for you as a founder in markets that are significant, but by no means the, yeah, the hugeness of the AI foundation model bet, and Mountain is a great example of…
Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds
- ▶ 1:10 Shaan Puri On the research side at Hinge, is that right?
- ▶ 18:18 Sam Parr And I think you told me this at Hinge, and you have a lot of this data, that, like, it's basically just a few, like, women all get likes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:19 Shaan Puri And you're the director of relationship science at Hinge, so if anyone should know, it's you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:46 Shaan Puri You're doing stuff at Hinge. 2 times in the scene
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
- ▶ 1:39 Shane Parrish My guest is Logan Urie, a behavioral scientist, dating coach, and the director of relationship science at Hinge.
- ▶ 7:32 Shane Parrish But now you go home, and you, you pick up your app, and you open Hinge, you open whatever app you're using, and you had a average, but maybe slightly above average date that could be a slow burn.
- ▶ 42:51 Logan Ury Honestly, meet on Hinge, and a few days later, we've actually found that the sweet spot is after three days of chatting, just say, hey, I always walk my dog at six p.m., can I give you a phone call, or do you want to FaceTime for a few…
- ▶ 55:16 Logan Ury So one of my favorite projects I've done for the last five years was a big Gen Z research project at Hinge, where I followed this group of international Gen Z daters for, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:42 Shane Parrish Uh, you probably see everything at Hinge from, like, the sixty-year-olds going for the twenty-year-olds to everything in between.
- ▶ 1:08:47 Logan Ury And so in the research that I did on this at Hinge, what we found is that 86% of people say, when it comes to rejection, I'd rather you tell me.
- ▶ 1:18:01 Logan Ury And that's something that Hinge is thinking about.
- ▶ 2:05:11 Logan Ury Your dating app profile is sort of like your billboard, and if you were buying a billboard, let's say, on the one-on-one in San Francisco, like, you would, of course, think a lot about what you're going to put on it, and I think people… 3 times in the scene
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 1:50:52 John Coogan Then Hinge had a gimmick, which was, you had, it had to be, like, a second degree connection on Facebook, so you had, like, a mutual friend.
The 2024 Milly Awards
- ▶ 42:47 Shaan Puri You run what's called a matrimonial ad in the newspaper.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:05:24 Jordi Hays You're going to miss some incredible moment because you're checking, you're checking some timeline, you know, your hinge notifications popping up on your watch.
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:17 George Arison Except for maybe Hinge, which has had a little bit more innovation, um, kind of along the way.
- ▶ 39:47 George Arison Clearly, Hinge is doing a lot of things really well and is growing super nicely and, and both in revenue and in user attraction, so there is a way to build online dating products for straight people that work.
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- ▶ 59:43 unnamed speaker Um, what do you think of the idea of, uh, if Elon Musk wants to raise birth rates, he should purchase Match Group, the company that controls Tinder and Hinge,
Tinder’s Founder on Becoming a Billionaire, Tinder’s #1 Mistake, and Free Speech
- ▶ 54:33 Codie Sanchez Like, we've got apps like Hinge, we've got apps like Bumble, and we've got apps like Tinder.
- ▶ 58:21 Codie Sanchez Hinge and Bumble are doing it.
- ▶ 1:04:31 Sean Rad App on Hinge. 3 times in the scene
Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform
Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise
Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 31:31 Alex Lieberman And the fourth bonus strategy is hosting a launch party, aka Hinge. 2 times in the scene
Failure
- ▶ 1:22 Lenny Rachitsky Forward-thinking companies such as Hinge, Patreon, Yahoo, Accolade, and more use Sendbird to build in-app communication experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and retention.
My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
- ▶ 1:19 Lenny Rachitsky Forward thinking companies such as Hinge, Patreon, Yahoo, Accolade, and more use Sendbird to build in-app communication experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and retention.
LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 8:58 Benedict Evans It was kind of interesting to compare, you know, hinge on the one hand, hinge with Instagram and Tinder with Candy Crush, if you like, if you've ever used Tinder.
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 1:05:58 Joel Simkhai You have to upload three face photos, and so you see exactly who you're meeting, and we verify every single person, so it's a hundred percent real community, and it's essentially an experience, kind of more like Hinge.
Everything I learned this week
- ▶ 5:21 Greg Isenberg Like this is the complete opposite of Tinder, Hinge, Raya, all these dating, dating apps, literally a physical product that you pay for, um, versus a free product, like a Tinder or something like that.
Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- ▶ 1:39:02 Martin Shkreli But, um, yeah, I, I love social media, but, you know, getting banned from, I'm banned from Tinder and Hinge and, you know, like so many odd, you know, social medias, uh, on YouTube.
How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
- ▶ 29:28 Ravi Mehta I think a really interesting example from my past life is comparing Tinder versus Hinge. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:55 Lenny Rachitsky Is there any others that come to mind of just like, we built this thing and hinge would never build it because we have such different strategies.
- ▶ 42:00 Lenny Rachitsky It's like, it reached Hinge's vision too well, where they just, nobody needed to stay on.
Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- ▶ 22:37 Pete Kazanjy So like, just, you know, just, just metaphorize it to, to, to hinge or, you know, coffee meets bagel or like whatever the, the more recent one is like, all right, are we getting the second dates? 2 times in the scene
Why You Should Start a Business For Older Adults
- ▶ 38:16 Greg Isenberg Like Tinder actually has a, in Hinge and a lot of these platforms have really great interfaces.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 16:34 Ben Gilbert Tinder and Hinge and these sorts of apps.
The Power of Becoming a Feedback Magnet with Kat Cole | Where It Happens
- ▶ 51:23 unnamed speaker Hinge exists.
How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194
- ▶ 1:00:25 Justin Mares I think that, like, where you spend your resources tells a lot about someone that a Hinge profile doesn't, and so I suspect if, like, you were to say, hey, we are matching the two of you up because you spend an absurd amount of your income… 2 times in the scene
Hinge: Justin McLeod
- ▶ 0:58 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how the one that got away led Justin McLeod to build the dating app Hinge, and how Hinge led him to the love of his life. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:56 Justin McLeod And so I followed her out to San Francisco, where she was going to take her job at Google, but sort of half-time work with me on Hinge. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 Guy Raz I mean, when you were pitching this to investors in 2011 or 2012, like, why would somebody, why would people use Hinge? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:50 Justin McLeod So people would equate it to like, you know, a house party or a wedding, and that was the kind of crowd and the vibe that you'd feel on Hinge, whereas maybe on the other ones, it was a little bit more just like people nearby and random,…
- ▶ 48:01 Guy Raz Hinge, and there's some others, but you were very different from Tinder, because Tinder was swipe left, swipe right. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:07 Guy Raz She was writing an article for, for the New York Times about Hinge named Deborah Copakin 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:11 Justin McLeod So, uh, and this will lead us back to the discussion about hinge, which is that, you know, here I am thinking like, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:22 Guy Raz So it's the fall of 2015, and inspired by his rekindled relationship with Kate, Justin decides once again to completely rebuild Hinge. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:58 Guy Raz Okay, so when you did go ahead and, and do the relaunch of Hinge in, in, in, in, how, how did it get, like, how was it received? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:47 Justin McLeod I have so much on my plate at Hinge right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:42 Guy Raz That's Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge. 2 times in the scene
1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR
- ▶ 0:58 Nathan Latka The platform currently serves tens of millions of monthly active users and many of the best known logos around the world, like Yahoo sports hinge and one of the most active websites in the world.