Bumble's Stumble | The Queen Bee | 1

About this episode

The episode explores Whitney Wolfe's lawsuit against Tinder and the subsequent launch and challenges of Bumble.

It’s 2014 and twenty-four-year-old Whitney Wolfe sues Tinder for harassment, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley. She walks away with a settlement but pays a high personal price for taking on the “boy’s club” culture in tech. That leads Wolfe to launch Bumble, an app with a radical feature — women make the first move. Bumble attracts millions of users and has a blockbuster IPO. But as the Bumble “Hive” grows, the pressure to scale takes its toll, and onlookers wonder: Can Bumble survive without its Queen Bee? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Topics covered

• harassment lawsuit
• women empowerment
• tech culture
• startup challenges
• Bumble app
• Silicon Valley

Keywords

• Whitney Wolfe
• Tinder
• Bumble
• harassment
• Silicon Valley
• IPO
• women making the first move

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tinder, Bumble

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