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 ...
