Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and CEO of Bumble (#316)

Thanks Tim!

If you get this… Jesse Itzler… author Living w a Seal… husband to Sara Blakley of Spanx… super cool dude!

Cheers!

JB

On Fri, May 25, 2018, 11:14 AM The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss wrote:

> Tim Ferriss posted: ” “Spirituality comes out in moments of darkness.” – > Whitney Wolfe Herd Whitney Wolfe Herd (@whitwolfeherd) is the founder and > CEO of Bumble, one of the fastest-growing social networking apps in the > world. She launched Bumble in 2014 as the only dating p” >

Tim, was relatively unimpressed with this particular episode. It seemed kind of meandering. [Moderator: additional text and link removed.]

Meh. Not a lot of value here.

Kudos to Tim for bringing in a more wide-ranging audience, including self-made independent women like Whitney Wolfe and Karlie Kloss. My only suggestion: perhaps you could “brand” these episodes separately to your more traditional interviews, which really get to specifics, practical outcomes, product recommendations, etc. (i.e. what made Tools of Titans). I feel like Tim has been moving more toward’s “inspirational” interviews, sort of Lewis Howes esque, and away from the core – which again, totally fine… but just for die-hards like me, it would be nice to know this before you get 30 minutes into the podcast.

Great show however a lot of misinformation regarding the Plant Paradox diet. Both in what the book is about and the validity of what Dr.Gundry is claiming.

Bumble needs to work on customer service. Lots of problems with FB sign in ect.

Hi Tim! i’m Alexander from far Russia! just wanted to say thank you for recommendation Seneca letters to Lucilius, let me repay my debt to you. here’s the book “health by purification” peter jentschura josef lohkämper, it helps me a lot as well as you did. it’ll help you a lot i’m ashure you, if you like it just let me know. ok? be strong and happy stoic 😉

Great interview. Interesting team-building philosophy.

A quick note for you and Whitney, Tim. 555 is how Thai people write LOL, because the number 5 is pronounced “ha” in Thai. One more reason to love those digits!

Hi Tim,

First off I want to say Thank You for all the learning that you unfold for us in all that you do. I really enjoyed this podcast, especially because it is less frequent to hear from successful young women. Since you have so much exposure to the world, a wide variety of people, and because you are so self-reflective, I thought I might see if what your thoughts on teens and choosing a degree, or choosing a career. I know you are really busy, but if you have the time or interest, your opinion would be greatly appreciated.

My INFP daughter is 17 years old, bright, artistic, solid student, and is a “Lawful Good” alignment. That said, I applaud her basic desires for a life of work ahead of her, which are: to be of service to the human population, be a positive addition to the world, and not work under fluorescent lighting. She’s willing and open to let me influence her decision for her undergraduate and career path. What are some career areas, experience, or undergraduate areas that you can see opportunity for a young woman to pursue? Or, even, where would you send me to help her find these answers (book, person, blog, etc.)?

Thank you in advance for reading and considering your answer to my question.

Amy

Hello Tim, team and community, I more and more often hear from your guests and approved by you Tim, that vegetables try to kill whomever is eating them. What made me think is, that plants for consumption are so highly modified theses days, wouldn’t it be logic that they also got rid of most toxins? And aren’t the fungi and pesticides sprayed on them even more harmful for living beings?

I know you are extremely busy and thank you for reading so far, totally understand if you don’t have the time to answer, maybe someone from the community has.

Anyway have a great day you all!

I enjoyed this episode thoroughly. I just would like to point out one flaw in the approach that Bumble has for protecting women against bad actors. The feminist ideology seems only to deal with those aspects that suck of being female and think that being a male is all upside. And sometimes the issues they describe are things that that happened to me, or sometimes some of my male friends. I am aware that there are ways to smear a woman that are specific to them, but there is also a lot of misandry around (thanks to radical feminism) and there are ways to smear males that are also stereotypical.

I don’t want in any way to diminish all the bad stuff that happened to Whitney or to say that her experience was not terrible. Also, she didn’t imply explicitly that the male experience cannot suck, but I feel that some feminists have an implicit assumption that being a male is all advantage. I have had experiences that are very similar to those complaints that some feminists claim that happens to them because they were women. It takes away some empathy when I can see that a experience wasn’t sexist discrimination but having to deal with a difficult person. I also have had female bosses or co-workers, that required some patience and art to deal with. I prefer the Viktor Frankl approach that every human has to be judged individually and there are bad and good people in every group (ethnicity, race, country, age, gender, etc are just accidents). He carried this principle out to the extreme of concentration camps where he saw good guards and bad prisoners, and he got this from a prisoner perspective.

I left my opening sentence unfinished. Bumble is interesting, but it still sucks that many women are very reluctant to make a move even when they have swiped right on you. I don’t see what encouragement they see from the app, but it would be nice if the app encouraged them to have some empathy and write something if they decided to swipe you right. It would be better if you just swipe left. It is weird that now because you are a male you are supposed to suck it up when women decide not to be courteous.

Best,

PB

I’m still thinking what to say really about the app, because of the diverse range of situations that it has brought up for me. Just last week, I decided to streamline one in particular. I use streamline but truth is, it was a tough, strict and direct cleanse. Of someone. I had to. I’m not this kind of person, I don’t hate. But I know that you would encourage this as it is not really the type of people that one wants to be around. Tim, this is to say that I want to thank Whitney for being bold and driven to create this app, as I am now in a small something that is developing. But it’s not the app, it’s us. It’s likeness and common grounds that aids the whatever-is-happening. Perhaps he wouldn’t find me interesting at all, but he did. But is it because he was looking? I was bored and swiped on him. One line and he messaged back, in the same language and I thought that was bold. Hours after, we were having coffee and he was wearing a turtleneck. It’s not a surprise that this happened, I like to take action. I simply can’t exchange messages forever to see if he is fit. He said something regarding that –and it’s not the first time I’ve heard it, so in fact I’ve doubted if I am the only one of this kind– He said: Actually, you are the first I meet in person. As much as I wanted to respond: Oh, I’ve gotten this before. That would have been an absolute stupid response. I feel I’ve been forever in the ‘dating industry’.