Whitney Wolfe Herd

Be genuine. Put out what you want to receive; that's the same for real life and Tinder.

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.

I guarantee that if you threw 100 people into a room, the first three questions they would ask each other are: 'Where did you grow up?,' 'Where did you go to school?' and 'What do you do for a living?' Most people on Bumble are looking for a life partner, and those things have a huge impact on compatibility.

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

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.

Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.

Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.

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

I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

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.

We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.