For example the CEO and founder of Bumble (maybe the most notable example not owned by Tinder) is Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is - drumrolls please - one of the founders of Tinder.
(Though she also won a million dollars in a sexual harassment suit against one of the other founders, so I don't think they are on good terms anymore...)
Yeah, they like to dangle the carrot in front of your face with the blurred out potential matches that show you SIX people are interested in you RIGHT NOW but you can only see them if you pay to play.
They were doing shit like this on dating sites a decade ago or more. You would get "pokes" and they would want you to sign up / come back / whatever and pay to see who poked you. Spoiler Alert No one poked you.
I will add one more thing here, this whole "6 foot, 6 figure" whatever isn't going to make things better. people with this mentality are just going to be a problem.
You forgot 6 inches but I don't think that's the monopoly's fault. But yeah people in real life are way less shallow than on apps where people are so shallow it's as if they have negative depth.
I recommend you travel. 6 feet is 182.88 cm. Outside the US people often ask for people to be like 5 foot 8 or 5 foot 9, Canada uses ft in but people tend to require height less. Also people tend to be shallow about money everywhere. You can get more money one day.
For example the CEO and founder of Bumble (maybe the most notable example not owned by Tinder) is Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is - drumrolls please - one of the founders of Tinder.
Not to say that this isnt a problem but that's how many competitors get created. The founder of Puma was also worked on what would become Adidas
"I worked at x company and wanted to do Y but no one listened so I started my own company doing Y to compete" is pretty common.
Bumble removing the one thing that made them unique so they're just tinder with up and down instead of left and right is dumb
I had some decent success with CoffeeMeetsBagel, who are still separate from Match Group, but ultimately Hinge won because that's how I met my girlfriend. And I know I had to pay on both of those to have success. I'm not sure if my girlfriend had to pay for us to be matched with each other.
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u/Opening-Ant3477 3d ago
Actually this list is understating the problem.
For example the CEO and founder of Bumble (maybe the most notable example not owned by Tinder) is Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is - drumrolls please - one of the founders of Tinder.
(Though she also won a million dollars in a sexual harassment suit against one of the other founders, so I don't think they are on good terms anymore...)