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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.”
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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…”
Assertion Supported
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.”
Insight
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 …”
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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.”
Insight
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 …”
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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…”
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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.”
Opinion
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 …”
Insight
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…”
Insight
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…”
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Wolfe Herd predicts AI will become how people meet each other
“AI is how we are going to meet people.”
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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.”
Opinion
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…”
Insight
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…”
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Wolfe Herd: Daily Stormer threats required police at Bumble headquarters
“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.”
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Wolfe Herd: Dating apps will shift toward swiping on events to meet 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…”
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd: Bumble will never replace human dynamic emotion with AI
“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.”
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Wolfe Herd: Bumble Prioritizes Shortening Session Length to Foster Offline Connection
“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.”
Insight
Wolfe Herd: Successful relationships create more business value than failed dates
“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”
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Wolfe Herd: Dating apps are the leading way younger demographics meet
“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.”
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd's long-term product vision is a digital coffee shop
“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 …”
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Wolfe Herd: Bumble prioritizes shortening user sessions to push offline meetings
“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.”
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd: Bumble will never build virtual AI romance companion products
“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…”
Whitney Wolfe Herd