After a strenuous year fighting a lawsuit against the company she co-founded, Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd joined Russian entrepreneur and Badoo founder Andrey Andreev to launch Bumble. Bumble was designed from the ground-up to be a different type of dating app, in which women message first. If no message is sent within 24 hours, the pair are unmatched. Herd saw this functionality as “pro-feminist”, empowering women to make the first move and their own choices. While not everyone ...| Business of Apps
In 2013, Tinder revolutionised the online dating industry with a simple system, swipe right if interested, left if not. Instead of having a matchmaker rifle through thousands of profiles to find someone unique, users are allowed to decide whether they like someone based off a few photos. In comparison to the services which had come before, Tinder made dating simple, but it also, as studies have found, made it less about lasting connections and relationships and more about casual hook-ups and ...| Business of Apps