Apps changing how we date: Meet the founder of Bumble
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
She cofounded Tinder in her twenties, then became the target of misogynistic trolling. Now her female-friendly dating app Bumble has made her one of the world’s wealthiest women aged just 31. How has Whitney Wolfe Herd changed the way we date forever?
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| 0:00.0 | Being in and out of lockdown for much of the last year has been tough on everyone, |
| 0:10.6 | but spare a thought for those of us who've been locked down alone. |
| 0:15.6 | Most of the apps found somewhere between 20 and 25% increase in the pandemic |
| 0:20.2 | if you're using them because it really was the only truly safe way |
| 0:23.4 | to talk to somebody new was via your phone. |
| 0:27.8 | With the isolation of lockdown driving more and more people to online dating, |
| 0:33.0 | it's little wonder that Whitney Wolff heard, |
| 0:36.2 | the founder and CEO of Bumble, |
| 0:38.4 | a dating app that empowers women to make the first move, |
| 0:42.0 | has just become the world's youngest female self-made billionaire. |
| 0:48.0 | She has now valued at $1.6 billion, which is about £1.2 billion. |
| 0:53.4 | As an entire industry has sprung up to help people find a connection, |
| 0:59.2 | our apps changing the way we live and love. |
| 1:03.8 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm Manvine Rano. |
| 1:09.8 | Today, the woman and the app changing the way we date. |
| 1:24.4 | I do have some great dating stories. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm not sure that any of them are appropriate necessarily for broadcast. |
| 1:30.0 | And now I want to hear them even more. |
| 1:34.0 | I think that might be the late night version of the podcast. |
| 1:36.8 | That's Jane Malkorens, assistant editor of The Times magazine, |
| 1:40.8 | an online dating aficionado. |
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