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Dating products must actively counteract socially conditioned gender dynamics
“We have to really reshape behavior because women are taught not to make the first move. Women are taught not to speak first. They're taught never to send that first message, never to initiate. And men are taught to be very aggressive and really beat down that …”
Hoffman: Bumble's female-first mechanic rewrites cultural dating norms
“This tweak doesn't just change how dating apps work. It aims to change how dating works. Period. It rewrites our cultural assumptions about how people connect.”
Bumble successfully pitched its female-first mechanic as rejection relief for men
“It was all about the way you position this. So you could say to a group of guys, hey, download this platform. You have to behave. If you are disrespectful, you're going to have consequences, and women are the bosses, they're in control, and you have no power. …”
Wolfe Herd: Requiring women to make first move reduces dating harassment
“So I said women must make the first move. This is going to reduce harassment. This is going to reduce bad behavior. Women are not going to be spammed. And women will be empowered and encouraged to actually be in the driver's seat.”
Bumble recorded one million first moves in its first weeks in India
“We've only been live there for a couple short months, and I think in the first few weeks we had a 1,000,001st moves.”
Asymmetric response time limits actively harmed Bumble's early user dynamics
“Well, what we realized was by giving women this time restraint, but letting men respond at their own free will, this was actually going backwards, and this was not doing anyone any favors, and so we needed to hold both parties accountable.”
Male entrepreneurs would likely not have understood Bumble's early vision
“Had I sat in a room with any other entrepreneur, particularly any other male entrepreneur, I just don't know if they would have seen what I was trying to say, and he understood so clearly because he'd been dealing with data and insights of user behavior for a …”
Bumble grew to 50 million users and $200 million in revenue
“After leaving Tinder, she founded another dating app, Bumble, which has grown to fifty million users and two hundred million dollars in revenue.”
Bumble built a friendship tier after noticing users hacking the app
“Our users were basically hijacking our product to use it in a different way. We were hearing success stories. We would meet people, and they'd say, I just found my roommate on Bumble. You found your roommate on Bumble? And so we built Bumble BFF, and that was …”