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Simmer: The Average American Gained Thirty Pounds During the Pandemic
“And by the way, the average American gained 30 pounds during the pandemic.”
Simmer: Periodic In-Person Engagement Is Crucial for Remote-First Organizations
“I think that's right, and I think that's where some periodic in-person engagement is necessary.”
Simmer: A Five-Year Horizon Mental Model Optimizes Daily Life Prioritization
“There's something very special about that five year timeframe. You know, if you had 30 days, you would change everything. And on the other end of the spectrum, all of us live right now, like we've got infinity in front of us. But what if you have five years? W…”
Simmer: Incoming Leaders Get One Shot to Build a Trust Foundation
“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.”
Simmer: Early-Stage Employees Must Flex Across Functions Instead of Siloing
“Because at those early stages, it's not about stay in your lane. It's like own accountability for your lane, but how do you flex and help the business grow?”
Simmer: Treating Careers as Chapters Eases Difficult Departure Conversations
“And I think getting to a place where as business leaders and as employees, we accept that careers are going to come in chapters gives both sides a lot more freedom to have then the harder conversations when it's necessary. There shouldn't be this pressure to s…”
Simmer: Operating With a Five-Year Horizon Clarifies Marginal Decision-Making
“The doctor was worried about metastasis, and she said, look, worst case, I can get you five years. And there's something very special about that five-year time frame. You know, if you had 30 days, you would change everything. And on the other end of the spectr…”
Simmer: Discouragingly Little Venture Capital Flows to Female Founders and CEOs
“It is so discouraging to me that there are still so little capital that flows. To women CEOs and women founders.”
Simmer: A Candidate's Lack of Mission Alignment Is an Absolute Dealbreaker
“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.”
Simmer: Kind People Give Uncomfortable Feedback; Nice People Avoid Discomfort
“A kind person will tell you have spinach in your teeth and a nice person won't because it's uncomfortable, right? But the kind person is going to set you up for a much better rest of your day because you're not running around with spinach in your teeth.”
Simmer: Disagreeing With Your Manager Requires High Psychological Safety
“Especially in a relationship where potentially you disagree with your manager about something. Often the nice thing to do is be like, okay, sure. Good idea. That, that sounds good. But the kind thing to do would be to push them on their thinking and to feel em…”
Simmer: Voice Conversations Build Interpersonal Trust Much Faster Than Slack
“Voice on voice does build trust more than Slack to Slack does.”
Simmer: Executives Stating Opinions Too Early Suppress Genuine Team Convictions
“One of the things that I noticed from a more tactical perspective is if I throw out an opinion too soon, Even if I'm still feeling my way around the problem, but I say like, what have you thought about it? XYZ. I find that people start. Gravitating towards you…”
Simmer: Leaders Must Only Vent Upward to Preserve Organizational Trust
“There, there's sort of a rule in operating, right? Like you can only vent upwards. Like if you vent down, you can build a lack of trust.”
Simmer: Diagnosed With Stage Three Cancer Right After Bumble's Blackstone Acquisition
“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.”
Simmer: Shifted From Operations to Strategy to Lead Bumble's IPO
“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”
Simmer: Three Daily Reflection Questions Create Clear Remote Work Boundaries
“I do this exercise in the evenings where I try to ask myself, What am I blocking? What am I advancing? How did I make people feel? And when I can answer those questions, just even knowing the answers will give me permission to then move into a different phase …”
Found Raised an Unplanned and Meaningfully Oversubscribed Series B Round
“I think, as you said, we did raise the series B. We were meaningfully oversubscribed. We weren't even planning to raise”
Simmer: Online Harassment Against Whitney Wolfe Herd Shaped Bumble's Vision
“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,”