Justin McLeod
13 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 22, 2021 by Justin McLeod · across every show →
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Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021 positive
McLeod: Frictionless sign-on removed online dating stigma and unlocked millennials
“If you make it easy and you make a one-click sign-on, it won't have stigma. And if it doesn't have stigma, you're going to unlock the biggest single market Which is people who are 20 to 35, when those people didn't use dating websites.”
Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021
McLeod: Hinge was bootstrapped with $24k to hire Argentine developers
“So I got together with a friend, her name was Frances, at business school. She worked at Google, and we each put in 12,000 dollars, which was obviously like a lot of money for us both, but it's what I had, and so we put in this money, and we hired a team of en…”
Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021 negative
Jul 17, 2025 positive
McLeod: Companies should win one market at a time over broad expansion
“Yeah, and we have this principle at Hinge of kind of depth over breadth, and we always
You know, it's hard to try to cover up for weakness by just like expanding more like, oh, like that market's not working.
Let's just launch more markets.
So thinking, thinki…”
Jul 17, 2025 negative
McLeod: Screen time replaced 70% of time spent with friends
“If you look at the loneliness epidemic, and you actually look over the last 20 years at the amount of time people spend on their screens, we've almost completely displaced in real life time spent with our friends with time spent looking at screens. About 70% o…”
Jul 17, 2025 bullish
McLeod: AI will replace swiping with natural language preference matching
“I'm actually quite excited about the possibilities that we're now seeing because of AI, which I think will even further our ability to help people spend less time on our app and more time out on great dates. It will allow people Instead of communicating to us …”
Jul 17, 2025
McLeod: Hinge launched new cities using waitlists and single-event tipping points
“Well, in Hinge's day, we started originally in Washington, D.C.,
There was a lot of movement between, like, DC and New York, and so people in New York would start to hear about it, but we wouldn't let anyone in until, because we had such a network effects prod…”