E195: Bumble Founder: World’s Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire: Whitney Wolfe Herd

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble and the first self-made female billionaire on the planet. In this episode, she reveals after leaving Tinder in explosive circumstances, the injustices she faced drove her on to build a better kind of dating app.

A firm believer that the way to connect with people is by being authentic and being vulnerable, Whitney reveals she routinely shares with her staff her struggles with anxiety and when she’s not feeling on top of things. The only path to human connection lies through honesty, and Whitney breaks the mould to be as transparent with her employees as she can.

In one of our rawest and most emotional conversations with CEOs yet, Whitney reveals that she wanted to be the boss not because she wanted to, but because she thought the nature of her character meant she couldn’t work for anybody else.

Topics:

Early context
How do we follow what we really want?
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Your background education
Moving into the working world
The importance of leaning in
Early marketing tactics for tinder
Naivety
What was Tinder like in the early days?
Regrets when building a business
Your departure from Tinder
When was your darkest day?
Why did Bumble win
Balance
Why did bumble win?
Leadership
How do you staying harmony with yourself
The importance of being vulnerable as a leader
What does a successful 10 years look like for bumble?
The last guest question

Whitney:

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Twitter: http://bit.ly/3UWNstj

Bumble:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm legally really not meant to comment on the Tinder times.
0:03.8	I don't even know if I've told the story.
0:06.8	But...
0:09.6	Whitney will purred the CEO and founder of Bumble Whitney
0:12.4	became one of the few women who can add billionaire to her title.
0:16.0	The dating app that puts women in charge of making the first move...
0:19.4	Making the first move can change your life.
0:22.0	But you have to do it. No one can do it for you.
0:24.6	Which would then become Bumble's entire mantra.
0:27.8	I've seen all the things that Bumble have done over the years
0:30.2	and it's always seems to be original in its nature.
0:32.8	There was a lot of these tiny hacking concepts that made no sense.
0:36.6	No one had ever done these things before.
0:38.4	But if you understand what moves and motivates people,
0:42.8	then you have this opportunity to connect with them.
0:45.8	And so that's been the superpower of our 70 years.
0:48.6	At 31 years old, you're the youngest woman to take a company public.
0:52.6	What's the personal toll on you in those moments?
0:55.6	It's been pretty dark. It's been pretty heavy.
0:58.4	Your departure from Tinder read to me like it was horrific and sexist.
1:03.4	It was soul-crashable.
1:05.4	I was being described in all sorts of ways.
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