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" As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

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" The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail. "

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" I was 24 when I was embroiled in a high-profile lawsuit. This was 2014, long before, en masse and on social media, we said #MeToo and #TimesUp. At the time, I felt completely alone. Visceral, hateful online harassment from strangers left me paranoid and anxious for years afterward. "

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" I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale? "

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" After the launch of Bumble Date, users were starting to connect as friends, so we decided to launch BFF. When I was using BFF, I matched with someone who I then went on to hire at Bumble HQ. From there, I thought, why not create a platform for women to build business connections and advance their careers. "

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" Bumble is all about community and safe, empowered connections, and the Hive represents a natural extension of our brand and our values. We love that we've given people an opportunity to connect digitally, and the Hive allows us and our users to take that to the next level in a space where connections can come to life in person. "

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" The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution. "

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" As long as you know that you're doing the right thing, do not care about what other people think about you. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Doing The Right Thing

" Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work. "

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" Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave. "

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" I run a dating site, but I will gladly tell someone, 'Do not date someone if it's not right.' And don't settle. This settling thing is insane. I've literally had to force friends out of relationships because they want to be married by a certain age, so they just date these guys that are not right for them. "

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" I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way. "

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" I'm kind of in my own world. "

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" Amassing a user base is a lot harder than one might think. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" Bumble is a connecting company. It's your place to find connections, whatever that may be. "

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" Never before has a major professional sports team partnered in this way with a female-driven brand like Bumble. It's an honor to partner with an organization as progressive and compassionate as the Clippers. Like us, they know generating awareness for diversity and gender equality is critical to business success. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground: they are facing it on their cell phones. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I was tired of a system where women waited around for men to send them a message or ask them out. With Bumble - first a dating app, now a social network that helps you make empowering connections in love, life, and business - women had to make the first move, or the match was void. "

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" Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I think it's smart to always keep an eye on the companies that sit within incubator communities, which bring together the skills and expertise needed to grow an enterprise. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel - and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that's in dating, friendship, or business. "

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" So many entrepreneurs approach me and say, 'I want to start the next big thing,' and I say, 'Well, what are you solving?' And oftentimes they say, 'Oh, I'm not sure. I want to start something big.' You can never start something big without solving something small, right? "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I'd read a lot about the psychology around rejection and insecurity, and I had noticed that when people feel insecure or rejected, they behave aggressively, erratically. Especially when you can hide behind a screen name or a profile picture. "

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" I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing. "

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" If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less. "

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" I want to go to every corner of the Earth where women are and make sure that every single woman on this planet knows that you should make the first move, it's OK to make the first move. They are equal, and they should be empowered. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it's almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend. "

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" If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame. "

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" I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app. "

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