Ep. 45 – Empowering Women Across The Globe with Bumble COO, Sarah Jones Simmer

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Business, Management, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 224 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Women waiting for men to make the first move has become a very dated concept in today’s world. Now, women are realizing their own space in this world and have become more confident to take on whatever it is they want. In the social connection space, this means more women are now sparking up their […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to Second in Command, brought to you by COO Alliance, where top-level
0:07.3	COOs share their insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief. And now, here and now here's your host, Cameron Herald.
0:15.0	Sarah Jones-Himmor.
0:17.0	Sarah Jones Simmer is the chief operating officer of Bumble, the female first
0:26.2	social networking app that brings kindness and respect back into the dating and
0:29.9	social introductions. In her role she oversees core business strategy, growth, and
0:34.8	marketing initiatives and facilitates the expansion of Bumble's rapidly growing team
0:39.2	headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices around the world. Sarah has spent her career investing in, studying, with offices around the world.
0:42.5	Sarah has spent her career investing in, studying,
0:44.7	and operating businesses.
0:46.2	Sarah has done public speaking on topics
0:48.1	ranging from girls and women's rights
0:49.8	in the future of ethical business,
0:51.6	as a master's in public policy from Northwestern University,
0:55.1	and she used to run marathons and has completed an Iron Man.
0:57.8	Now she spends time outside of work raising two amazing young daughters.
1:01.8	Sarah and I actually met at a X Prize event that was held at
1:05.8	the TED conference last year. So I've been looking forward since last April to getting
1:09.5	you on the Second Command Podcast. Thanks for joining. Thank you for having me.
1:14.1	I'm excited for today's conversation. Yeah, looking forward to hearing some of this.
1:17.5	So you just before we were starting up you said that Bumble has been doing the
1:21.8	expansion into India and you were getting ready for some stuff with the Super Bowl this past weekend.
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