Esquire Magazine
Originally Posted: November 28, 2015
Whitney Wolfe Will Get You a Date
The brains behind Bumble is one of Esquire’s 2015 breakouts
We threw a dinner party for the men and women behind the biggest blockbusters, breakthroughs, and debuts of the year. Read the rest of the interviews here.
Before Tinder was Tinder, it was an idea developed by a handful of founders who thought there was a better way for people to connect. One of those founders was Wolfe, who moved on from Tinder in 2014 to start her own dating app, Bumble, which offers the unique proposition that women have to make first contact with potential male mates. Live for about a year, Bumble has a million users (and counting) and it’s growing about 15 percent every week. READ MORE