Bumble

“You know, Whitney talked a lot about that in her origin story of Bumble, and how the experience that she lived with on the things that were said to her online, like, really shaped her vision for what Bumble could be,”

“Build the foundation of trust. Otherwise you're not, you can't go back and re-engineer that, right? You get one shot at the beginning of really getting people to trust you and how you're going to layer in your vision to the growth of the company.”

“We constructed this narrower, deeper role as chief strategy officer that would enable me to go from a team of like a 150 to four or five, and that would take on transformative strategic projects across the business, and the first one would be the IPO”

“I joined Bumble in 2017. It was about 30 people in a two bedroom apartment at that point.”

“If all of the hard skills are there, but someone doesn't actually believe in what you're trying to do, That's a deal breaker, right? That there needs to be this belief in what you're trying to build.”

“So in May of I was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. I didn't have a family history. I had no reason to suspect that I would have it, and so it was very blindsiding, and this was shortly after Bumble had been acquired by Blackstone.”