Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder & CEO, Bumble. On 3 shows, 7 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Wolfe Herd is best known for founding the dating app Bumble in 2014 and becoming the youngest woman to take a company public in the U.S. in 2021. Before launching Bumble, she was a co-founder and Vice President of Marketing at Tinder.
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12said about them ↓ Everything Whitney Wolfe Herd said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wolfe Herd: Tech could prevent breakups within 10 years
“And my dream, Guy, is 10 years from now, We will be able to prevent breakups before they ever happen. We will be able to prevent bad relationships from ever having a potential of happening.”
Tech founders are inherently responsible for how users use their products
“What I learned from my time at Tinder was the minute you encourage someone to use a piece of technology, You are inherently responsible.”
Wolfe Herd: Bumble will speak publicly on abortion and women's rights
“If something, even if political, is in threat of that, is in violation of that, then we just simply cannot be silent. So when you look at empowering women's relationships, Yet our country is saying that women don't even have a right to their own bodies. How co…”
Wolfe Herd: I didn't invent Tinder, but marketing earned my co-founder title
“So Tinder was not my idea. I've never said it was my idea ever. I became a co-founder of Tinder via my marketing contributions and my early involvement in getting it launched and getting it out there.”
Wolfe Herd: Software can be copied easily, but brand authenticity cannot
“Anybody can copy a product. Anyone. I'm at the UT campus speaking to you right now. I could go to the engineering school, probably find five really talented young engineers, and they could build Bumble. With the right support, somebody could rebuild any piece …”
Wolfe Herd: Putting women in control of messaging balances dating dynamics
“When you put women in control, you completely reverse the rules. So she now has the confidence to go after what she's interested in. And the man on the other end doesn't feel rejected. He feels flattered. And then all of a sudden you've balanced the behavior.”
Wolfe Herd: Competitors can easily copy software products, but not brands
“Anybody can copy a product. Anyone. I'm at the UT campus speaking to you right now. I could go to the engineering school, probably find five really talented young engineers, and they could build Bumble. With the right support, somebody could rebuild any piece …”
Wolfe Herd: Bumble is exploring AI dating coaches to prepare users for chats
“So we have been hard at work exploring ways to have coaches or matchmakers or friends in your pocket, whatever you want to call it. You know, basically be that wing woman, wing man, wing person in your pocket to really show you that you've got this and to have…”
Wolfe Herd: Raising user self-esteem will reduce harassment and ghosting in dating
“If you have a user base and a supply of people Feeling better about themselves with higher levels of self-esteem, what do you get less of? Abuse? Harassment? Toxicity? Ghosting? All the icky stuff that comes with dating will subsequently decline.”
Whitney Wolfe Herd: Interacting on TikTok and Instagram Kills Real Friendship
“Friendship has moved online, and it has actually killed friendship. Chatting with your buddies on TikTok and Instagram does not count as relationship. That is not a soulful, real relationship, and candidly, It creates more of a voyeuristic fear of missing out …”
Dating products must actively counteract socially conditioned gender dynamics
“We have to really reshape behavior because women are taught not to make the first move. Women are taught not to speak first. They're taught never to send that first message, never to initiate. And men are taught to be very aggressive and really beat down that …”
Early gay dating apps prioritized anonymity and hookups over real relationships
“When you think about gay dating apps, they've actually been incredibly non-inclusive to gay men. It's been very much engineered towards anonymity and very hyper-sexualized behavior, but there's never really been a product that actually facilitates dating, love…”
Wolfe Herd: Dating apps let users bypass fate through search filtering
“When you think about the power of technology, how it essentially lets you bypass fate and hack it, you can wield the power of meeting who you want to meet. You can filter people. You can layer your search criteria in ways that you just cannot do in the real wo…”
Wolfe Herd: Founders should track app store reviews, not stock price
“So you can delete it off your phone. It's the wrong metric to focus on. Instead, you're much better off reading the App Store reviews. You're much better off reading the feedback from your customer, because the stock market is the wrong voting machine to be li…”
Wolfe Herd predicts AI will become how people meet each other
“AI is how we are going to meet people.”
Wolfe Herd: Boosting user self-esteem decreases platform toxicity and ghosting
“If you have a user base and a supply of people feeling better about themselves with higher levels of self-esteem, what do you get less of? Abuse, harassment, toxicity, ghosting, all the icky stuff that comes with dating will subsequently decline.”
Wolfe Herd: Interacting on TikTok and Instagram degrades authentic offline friendship
“So friendship has moved online, and it has actually killed friendship. Chatting with your buddies on TikTok and Instagram does not count as relationship. That is not a soulful, real relationship, and candidly, it creates more of a voyeuristic fear of missing o…”
Wolfe Herd: 50 successful matches drive more growth than thousands failing
“So, 50 success stories is worth more than thousands of failed dates, because those failed dates turn into the reverse flywheel of negative feedback, and so we're actually absolutely aligned with the customer finding success, because their success is our succes…”
Wolfe Herd: Vocal Twitter critics rarely represent a product's majority user base
“Usually the most vocal people are not the masses. So you get like the Twitter people who are like, you screwed this up and you have to do this way and you need to do it that way. But then when you actually run the deeper analysis, there's like three people tha…”
Wolfe Herd: Leaders should be transparent about why information is confidential
“You can be transparent about not being able to talk about it. That's the key differentiator. People start getting spooked when there's no transparency around the need for privacy.”
Wolfe Herd: Public Tinder fallout eliminated her fear of failure
“What it did was it actually said, Hey, you've got nothing left to lose. Go run as fast as you can. And who gives a whatever about what you do next? Like it's okay. You've got this because your greatest fear of being completely Villainized or laughed at or abus…”
Wolfe Herd: Having children makes executives perform faster and better
“When you have children, you're forced to shift gears. When you get back into work gear, you're actually driving a lot smoother and you're driving a lot faster, and it's actually a much better ride.”
Wolfe Herd: Founders mistakenly expect employees to share their total obsession
“I think this is a downside of a lot of founders. We assume that the whole world is obsessed with whatever they're building, when in reality, like, they have to go through carpool, and pick up kids, and put food on the table, and do all these things”
The other half of the tape: Whitney Wolfe Herd's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Statements about Whitney Wolfe Herd, by other people (4)
Sean Rad: Outsourcing dating to AI agents is the stupidest idea ever
“I think that is a very sad idea. I think the journey Is part of the reward. Me actually talking to someone, getting to know them, helps me learn about myself, helps me learn about them. It's not about a transaction. Romance is a journey. It's not just an ends …”
Arison: AI agents dating each other to pre-screen matches will happen
“Yeah, I said that six months before she did, so I think it's totally gonna happen.”
CEOs of fast-growing companies do not have to sacrifice family life
“There don't have to be, like, sacrifices from a family
Perspective that you take to be the CEO of a fast-growing company, and you can do it all, all kind of in harmony.”
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- George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Bumble | 5 | 51 | 100% 5/5 | full record on How I Built This → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Founder & CEO, Bumble | 1 | 13 | — | full record on Masters of Scale → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Bumble | 1 | 8 | — | full record on 20VC → |