Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge

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Alright. Let's get to it. Joining me this week is Justin McCloud, founder and CEO of Hinge. Justin, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. Um so it's Justin, a lot has changed since you first uh shared your story with us a couple of years ago on the show from sort of how Hinge kind of has evolved to your role as a leader.

And we will put a link to your original interview in the episode description in the show notes. Um and you can also find it by searching for How I Built This and Justin McCloud or Hinge. It's a great episode. Really great episode. You guys will love it. Um just an awesome story about how you guys kinda redesigned everything. on the site and use your remaining last capital in a launch party before even getting your app into the app store and all the messiness and craziness. Justin, before we get to our callers, just a

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