The Wisdom Wall

“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 of technology. It's, it's engineering. However, You cannot…”

“when you, 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.”

“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 of technology. It's, it's engineering. However, You cannot…”

“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, um, your search criteria in ways that you just cannot do in the real world. This, this is really powerful.”

“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 listening to.”

“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 success, and we're in this to help them find healthy and equitable…”

“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”

“The problem was the lack of online accountability that human beings are exposed to every single day, and what it made me realize was that You know, whatever I felt was going on online, this is what goes on on a thirteen-year-old's phone all day, every day.”

“Men are raised from very early age to be the go-getter in a, 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 telling women to To be the inverse of that. And so now…”

“when you, 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.”

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

“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 that come with being publicly traded.”

“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 who has the power. So by having the women make the first…”

“And so I really realized that it's not so much about the what, it's the, it's the how or the why you should do this, right? Like this is why you need this instead of what you, what you need, right?”