#263: Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder and CEO of Bumble – Your mission is your mobilizer

Men have to go first. Women don't talk. Why would you build something where there's no interaction? This old age mindset was so convinced that this wouldn't work and a couple people, one being my husband and one being my former business partner, they were like, we love it. You're one of the most celebrated leaders I've ever talked to, and I've talked to a lot of great ones and uh Oh gosh, I don't know about that.

I don't know about that. And you're one of the most successful entrepreneurs of this generation for sure, but as I understand it, you wanted to be a photojournalist. What's the what's the favorite picture that you've ever taken and why? You know, I actually, it's so weird that you just asked me this because I haven't thought about this in a very long time, but I stumbled upon a photo in my phone the other day from 2011. when I had graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and, you know, all of my friends were going to get these great jobs.

They were working at Goldman and they were working at Vogue and they were working at all these various incredible business, you know, at these great companies. And all their parents were so proud. And I remember my parents were like, so, you know, where are you gonna be working? Goldman, you know, Vogue. And I said, no, I'm actually going to take a backpack and go to Southeast Asia.

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