Bumble

“Even, even split.”

“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 …”

“If somebody is in a conversation and someone says something inappropriate, we have very easy reporting tools, and once something is reported, we do review it, And if there was bad behavior, that user is banned for life. There are no second chances.”

“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.”

“According to Forbes magazine, Bumble turned down an acquisition offer of four hundred and fifty million dollars this past August from the Match Group.”

“What I had realized was you can't kill ambition. You can kill confidence, but you can't kill drive.”

“Twenty million registrations, nearly.”

“We have hundreds and hundreds of thousands, if not in the millions at this point, of active BFF users, which are, you know, young women matching with other young women, kind of in that merci capacity I spoke about earlier.”

“Just last week, we became under attack from this website called the Daily Stormer. It's a neo-Nazi site, and we had upwards of a hundred men sending us threats. We actually had to have police at our office all week.”

“If somebody is in a conversation and someone says something inappropriate, we have very easy reporting tools, and once something is reported, we do review it, And if there was bad behavior, that user is banned for life. There are no second chances.”

“Men are raised from very early age to be the go-getter in a heterosexual relationship. Go get her. Go, go make the move, right? And women, on the flip side, are trained to play hard to get. So here you're telling men to be overtly aggressive, and here you're t…”

“And we formed an incredible partnership where I was founder and CEO. I could build my own team, my own vision, my own brand, but we would have access to his resources beyond just money.”

“Even, even split.”

“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.”

“Twenty million registrations, nearly.”

“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 …”

“So what we're really focused on right now is how do we connect you to more than just one person? How can we bring you together on shared interests? For example, how do we build the digital dinner party and the equivalent of that so that you don't lose access t…”

“We've always been about putting the power into the women's hand, not to make women above men, but to equalize this kind of broken system. We felt that women were historically a bit below men in this like totem pole of relationships and who should go first and …”

“So we're seeing a decrease in this casual culture of dating where you might go out with someone for a night and then you don't see them again. That has decreased significantly, but remarkably more meaningful relationships are coming out of this.”

“That was a feature that historically had moderate to low use, and we always wondered, why are people not using this more?”

“In fact, everything we are working on from a product prioritization standpoint right now is to shorten the duration that you're using our product on any given time because we want you to go online and get offline.”

“There is no argument that, that dating apps have become, you know, the front runner In how, you know, people between a certain age group meet. And that number is only expected to grow because of a few things.”

“When you're a publicly traded company, you need to see 90 days ahead at the same time. So using your brain to look 10 years ahead and 90 days ahead all in the same breath while you're cleaning baby drool and trying to deal with a myriad of new responsibilities…”

“No, not under my leadership, at least. Listen, I, that's not what we are here to do. We are definitely not in the business of trying to wipe out humanity and trying to get people to fall in love with, you know, fake iterations of humans. I don't want to use AI…”

“I had my first child, took Blackstone on as a shareholder, all within the same few weeks.”

“AI is how we are going to meet people.”

“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…”

“I am absolutely fascinated committed to, and on the track of integrating AI into love and connection and friendship and relationships. That is my obsession at the moment.”

“What my long-term vision is for this platform is this, in the coming years, should not be a platform that people say is a dating app that you compare to this, or you compare to that app over there. My long-term goal for Bumble is to be The digital coffee shop …”

“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…”

“Taking these features that we had otherwise considered duds, if you will, right? Voice calling, FaceTime calling. Videos, like these features that nobody wanted to use. They were like the lowest on the interest pole”

“My big focus is to never, ever, ever replace a real human dynamic emotion, want, or need with a computer, with a system, with a model, with a bot, right? And so what I would like to do is help humans connect better.”

“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…”

“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 success”

“Everything we are working on from a product prioritization standpoint right now is to shorten the duration that you're using our product on any given time because we want you to go online and get offline.”

“I think the next horizon is going online to get offline. So in the near future, it will not be unimaginable to get on Bumble, and instead of, you know, swiping yes and no on a bunch of people, you might be swiping yes or no on things that sound compelling to y…”