Bumble: Whitney Wolfe (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

At age 22, Whitney Wolfe helped launch Tinder, one of the world's most popular dating apps. But a few years later, she left Tinder and filed a lawsuit against the company alleging sexual harassment. The ensuing attention from the media – and cyberbullying from strangers – prompted her to launch Bumble, a dating app where women make the first move. Today, the Bumble app has been downloaded close to 30 million times. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Michael Dixon, whose business Mobile Vinyl Recorders uses portable record lathes to cut vinyl at parties, weddings, and music festivals. (Original broadcast date: October 16, 2017) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.
0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
0:17.0	So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.
0:24.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:31.0	So there are no shortages of dating apps out there, ranging from free apps to members only to ones that are based on quiz shows and pet preferences.
0:41.0	But today's show is the story of two dating apps, Tinder and Bumble, and the woman who helped start them both.
0:48.0	We first ran this episode with Whitney Wolfe in October of 2017. Enjoy.
0:55.0	I quite frankly thought I was at the very bottom of my barrel. I mean, there were days where I didn't want to live.
1:02.0	I mean, the internet defined me. The article calling me the most ugly names in the world.
1:09.0	The people on Twitter saying the ugliest things. But through all of this pain and struggle,
1:16.0	I still had an itch to create. And so I kind of sat down and said, I can start something right now.
1:24.0	And I can change what I hate that I see in the world.
1:28.0	From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:43.0	I'm Guy Raaz, and on today's show, how Whitney Wolfe's painful exit from Tinder inspired her to build Bumble, a kinder, gentler dating app where women make the first move.
1:57.0	There was a time, believe it or not, when internet dating meant you were desperate or awkward or both.
2:10.0	And it wasn't something you talked about openly. But today, it's the complete opposite.
2:16.0	Because the internet and dating apps have made it so much easier and more efficient to meet lots and lots of people.
2:23.0	And it's more or less frictionless. There's no awkward phone calls or courtship rituals or face-to-face rejection.
2:30.0	There's something almost transactional about the whole thing. And it's no exaggeration to say that even though they've only been around for like five years or so,
2:39.0	dating apps have pretty much transformed dating. And if you love them, you can thank Whitney Wolfe. Or you can blame her if you hate them because Whitney was part of the dating app revolution.
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