Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble, shares her inspiring journey from co-founding Tinder to building a dating app that empowers women. She discusses the pressures of leadership, revealing her highest-pressure moments and how they've shaped her decision-making. Transparency is a key theme, as Whitney highlights its benefits and pitfalls in effective leadership. She also emphasizes the importance of truly listening to teams and maintaining a balance between risk and reward, all while navigating her role as a mother and entrepreneur.

Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and former CEO of Bumble and a Tinder co-founder, shares insights on driving product innovation through small, impactful changes. She discusses how empowering women to initiate conversations has reshaped dating culture and reduced harassment. Alongside notable guests like Steve Spohn and Marissa Mayer, they explore the transformative effects of empathy in marketing and Bumble's groundbreaking impact on gender dynamics, particularly in India. Whitney's journey emphasizes the blend of thoughtful design and core values in achieving entrepreneurial success.

At age 22, Whitney Wolfe helped launch Tinder, one of the world's most popular dating apps. But a few years later, she left Tinder and filed a lawsuit against the company alleging sexual harassment. The ensuing attention from the media – and cyberbullying from strangers – prompted her to launch Bumble, a new kind of dating app where women make the first move. Today, the Bumble app has been downloaded more than 20 million times. PLUS for our postscript "How You Built That," how Michelle Innis invented De-Fishing soap to freshen up her fisherman husband, and how it wound up in WalMart. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.