Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
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Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what's validating to me. It's a great feeling to know you can trust your gut.
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In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.
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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 truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.
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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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Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.
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From its conception, I wanted Bumble's culture to match its values. If women were taking charge on our app, then they'd be running the show behind the scenes, too.
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Life is a lot more fun with good, positive people around you.
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I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.
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When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
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Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to.
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I'm so tired of this notion that women only need to support women. Why can't we all support each other?
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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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Often, the best jobs come out of just meeting people and letting one thing lead to another.
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Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
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My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of my girlfriends. When I'm working late hours, I'm almost punished for it by them. It's almost absurd that I would prioritize work over catching up with my girlfriends. If I were a man, that would just come second nature.
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Harass someone on Bumble, and you're banned for life. Harsh? Maybe. But I feel strongly that we won't end misogyny until we start holding each other to higher standards, and that starts with setting clear boundaries and enforcing them.
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I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.
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I'm kind of in my own world.