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" Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

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" 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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" I would pay good money for a British accent. "

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" I always wanted to have a scenario where the guy didn't have my number, but I had his. What if women make the first move, send the first message? And if they don't, the match disappears after 24 hours, like in Cinderella, the pumpkin and the carriage? It'd be symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance - going after it, girls ask first. "

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" Feminism wasn't really at the top of my vocabulary. I think what's been interesting for me - let me say this delicately - when I've been surrounded by men who don't believe women are equal, I didn't think women were equal, including myself. "

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" I'm the most fortunate woman in the world - I have a platform, which doesn't just reach 10 people. "

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" Being solicited on LinkedIn is a real thing that happens. "

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" I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men. "

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

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" Life's so much based on instincts and quick decisions, and people don't know what they're looking for. "

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" When women come together, we make a lot of amazing stuff happen. "

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" If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo. "

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" We need to eliminate hate speech. We need to do our part to really engineer kindness on our digital platforms. "

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" Networking is extremely masculine. It's a vulnerable thing to admit to, but even I experience feeling super insecure around certain masculine meetings. So, we put women in control. Women will make the first move on Bumble Bizz as well. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed. "

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" Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that. "

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" I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious and a go-getter, but when it came to dating, I wasn't supposed to go after what I wanted. "

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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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" Bumble is the perfect fit for New Zealand, a country that has always been a world leader when putting women first. "

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" Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move. "

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