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Whitney Wolfe Herd

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  1. “Of sorts, I think it's anxiety paired with drive and ambition and passion. I'm so dedicated to what I'm doing. I can't explain it to you. It's just part of my blood at this point, and it's almost like it's built into my system. So, yeah, the anxiety has been really scary over the years. And there's days where, you know, I couldn't feel my fingers for hours, or I didn't think I could breathe. I mean, this started manifesting into physical ailments, and God bless my doctor. He's really going to have to block my cell phone number at some point. But, you know, it's scary if you don't deal with anxiety, it will take advantage. It will take control over your life.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I was talking about very misogynistic things that really only apply to women, and that's what made it worse. Making insinuations about who I was as a woman and my intentions as a woman, not, it wasn't even about business, if that makes sense. It was very, it was very...”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “I was devastated. I actually became physically ill. So he's now my husband, and thank God for him. I was having such a mental breakdown. I was actually having what they call a clinical panic attack. I was hyperventilating. I was distraught. I couldn't breathe. My sight was not right. And he had to take me to his primary doctor. His family doctor. And the doctor literally had to prescribe me one to two days worth of some take any medicine. I'm scared of even Advil. I think it was like volume or something To physically call me down, I was having a mental breakdown because I I had no way to defend myself and I just felt helpless and I felt literally undressed on a huge stage and it was awful.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Well, and that was what was so devastating. My dad was just like, you know, having your father send you an article and be like, is this true? Like, of course no, but what, you know, how do you have to justify that at 24 just turning 25 years old to your father? How irresponsible can journalism be that no one asked me for comment on that? You know, no one asked if those allegations were true. And to be this young woman feeling like I was part of this like mean girl club and the girl that was, you know, being pointed at and laughed at by a group of people, I mean, it was awful.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Yeah, and this story came out one morning, one afternoon. My dad sent it to me And it was disgusting. It was talking about, you know, basically the piece painted me as this gone girl of tech, you know, she was a seductress and all of these awful insinuations. It was talking about ridiculous things, like really personal details that were completely inaccurate. And it was really gross and ugly. And it just made me feel undressed.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “So it was actually right after my birthday. Funny you say that it was the summer of 2014 and all of these articles were running and I wasn't speaking to anyone. I wasn't commenting on any articles. I knew nothing about the media at that time. Nothing. And I could not have been more naive when it came to PR and press at that time.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “This has to be depressive. Could be anxiety, could be anything else. Well, you know, and I still have days like that. And I think that's healthy for listeners or watchers to understand that. Just because something's going well or what people perceive to be going well doesn't mean every day is perfect. And I think the hard times in my life have really shaped the good times in my life. And I think many people can agree with that. So, you know, the inspiration behind Bumble was really driven from self-experience and what I've gone through in my life. Basically, there's been a common theme with every tough time I've ever gone through and that always comes down to mental abuse. And that has been not just in romantic endeavors. That could be friendships, toxic friendships. And so there's this been this recurring theme. And when I was under so much scrutiny from the internet, from strangers, and I was allowing these random strangers to define me and to dictate my day.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Well, that's awesome feedback. It's interesting that you highlight that that just plays into these gender dynamics. You know, women. The time they start thinking about who they like or having crushes, that it's going to be inbound, right? We're trained to think that's going to come to us, that the boys are supposed to chase the girls, and then that turns into the men chasing the women and that we're supposed to essentially play hard to get and not give in, right? And so when the good guy does show up, you oftentimes miss that given those broken dynamics. And so, yeah, when you do flip the switch, it does allow for better and more genuine connections.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “How many times has somebody downloaded our platform? How many people have registered for our app? We've had over 29 million registrations now in just over three years.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “There are many different metrics and ways that you can go about it. We look at kind of overall user base in terms of registrations.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “And it was in that moment that we said, okay, this is it. This is brand ability. This is how you brand something. And that was it off to the race as we went.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “I did not like it at first, and I'll tell you why. Bumble sounded like fumble. You know you were fumbling through a dating experience, and we wanted this to be an app that was empowering for women where they felt confident and in control. And it was not until all of these really cute catchphrases started being, you know, coming up people on our team and friends when we were asking, what do you think about this name or this name or this name? And all of a sudden these catchphrases were coming up like, you know, be the queen, be of bumble, find your honey on bumble.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “was much less aggressive, girls were not crying, feeling left out, so it recalibrated these gender norms around Flirting and dating and courting. And so that was a big inspiration behind Bumble, you know, when we were thinking about women making the first move. It was almost the digital rendition of that.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “And then you had the Sadie Hawkins stance. And the Sadie Hawkins dance was different from the prom because boys ask girls to the prom. Girls asked boys to the Sadie Hawkins. They asked the boy to the dance. Something really interesting took place when the Sadie Hawkins dance went into effect. It became so popular they made it a national holiday, and it became so popular because parents felt that it was a safer option because the way the boys behaved when the girls asked to the dance”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Okay, this is awesome. So the Sadie Hawkins dance started in the nineteen thirties, and it was based off of a cartoon by Al Cap where these women during leap year would make the first move. Essentially, they'd ask the men to marry them. And this got consolidated into a dance that U.S. school system started putting into place. And it became so popular. You know the Sadie Hawkins dance. They'd wear the poodle skirts. And the black and white shoes. No, think about it. Okay, you're going to have to look into this.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Because women were going to take the leap and make the first move and actually leap year is a very interesting story. In leap year, folklore says that women would propose to men during leap year. And so we thought leap and then we, you know, we played with Sadie for like Sadie Hawkins dance. We played with several”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “I did not think of the name Bumble. She had actually called her husband a bumbling idiot and she's got this British accent. And she was like, you know, what about bumble? Because we'd all been searching the internet, we're literally putting random letters together to come up with words. I mean, anything.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “Somebody else had totally trademarked every corner of it. It's actually a soda somewhere. And then there's some big PR firm or some consulting agency that's trademarked the heck out of it and I couldn't do that.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “Yes, I really wanted it to be Moxie. So, you know, for anyone that's familiar with that word, it insinuates that someone has gall or guts and is brave. And because Bumble was going to be this platform turning society on its head where women were going to make the first move, which according to society, that's not something women should do, definitely not in dating, right? I mean, the tale is old of time. Men do that. Men need to go first. Or society said and says. And so Moxie was going to be the name, but I couldn't trademark it.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “But we actually ended up talking through it. And the more thought I gave to this new concept of a dating app that could be engineered for women by women. The Became more apparent. And so that's how I shifted from this concept of Merci into what is now Bumble, which was, you know, very much similar concept if you think about it, you know, creating a brand written in kindness, a product rooted in good behavior, and really putting women in charge of that, creating the female internet. And that was really the beginning of Bumble.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  21. “Yeah, thank you, right? So it was supposed to be a kind social network, which had never been done. And it was around that time that things kind of parlayed into where we are now. My now business partner in Bumble, who's been a huge force in Bumble coming to life and the course of Bumble, he tried to hire me as his CMO at his dating company. He has this huge dating company that's the match of Europe and South America. His name's Andre Andrev. So James Bond Yeah, he's pretty awesome. But he wanted me to go run marketing. Dating company, and I thought he had lost his mind. And so I told him what I was going to do. I'm going to start this new way, you know, this new age of social media. And he was like, no, you're not. You're going to do that in dating with me. And I was like, You have lost your mind.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “And it was around that time that I started thinking, what am I going to do next? Because obviously I'm not going to just do nothing at 25 after being part of this really high growth startup and having this awesome exposure to so many different areas of the tech industry. And so I was going to start a female-only social network where you could only be kind to one another. So you could only share complimentary behavior. And the thought process behind it was complements are contagious, just like hatred is contagious.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  23. “But it devastated me and it made me just, it just made me so depressed. And I started to realize that there was something wrong with the internet. I started to realize that the lack of accountability on the social networks, that was a real thing and there was a real risk to that. And I was a perfect example of how dangerous it could be. And if I at 24 who had already had somewhat, you know, successful career and had great friends and family around me and I still could barely get out of bed and I could barely see straight. I mean, it just depleted every ounce of confidence that I've ever, ever had, it scared me for what it would mean for a 13-year-old or a 14-year-old or a 15-year-old who was in junior high going through this, right? And so I started to really understand the danger of the internet.”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “So Bumble is somewhat of a unique story in the sense that it wasn't just a singular aha moment somewhere. It was really a response to a couple different things in life and then there was a little bit of serendipity involved. I had just started being the you know kind of the center of this attacking you know violent internet abuse and all sorts of strangers and random people online were just ripping me apart all day long in the media and in the comment sections and on Twitter and it sounds silly to think that that could affect you”

    2018-05-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #316: Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT