An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more
Her userbase is going to eat her alive — Bumble is supposed to be “woke” and they've decided that AI is very much “not-woke”, so I'm sure this is going to play out great — That aside. If AI is so...
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more
She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need X: @ghadjia . LinkedIn: Sally Woods and George Hadjia ...
Bumble reports Q2 revenue down 8% YoY to $248.2M, vs. $245.1M est., a $367M net loss, and total paying users down 8.7% YoY to 3.8M; BMBL falls 20%+
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Sources: Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says Bumble's “center of gravity” will move to the US where the “talent pool is right now”; 70% of its staff is UK-based
Amazing that Bumble's staff weren't charmed by their CEO's approach.... [images] Christopher Mims / @mims : “Dating apps are feeling like a thing of the past” says [checks notes] CEO of a dating app ...
Bumble reports Q1 revenue down 7.7% YoY to $247.1M, in line with $246.2M est., with Bumble app paying users falling ~1% YoY to 2.7M; BMBL jumps ~7%
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Bumble rolls out new ID verification in the US, the UK, Australia, France, India, and six other markets, as founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returns as its CEO
Bumble Inc. is adding ID verification to its dating app alongside other new features, an attempt to court safety-conscious younger users …
Bumble reports Q3 revenue down 0.7% YoY to $273.6M, vs. $271.9M est., its first quarterly sales drop since going public in 2021, and 4.3M total paying users
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Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue
Bumble and Match Group launch friendship and social products to help reverse post-pandemic slowdown Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @ft , @shahzadyounas_ , and @shahzadyounas_ Mastodon: Dare Obasa...
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to attract new users
Dating apps develop AI ‘wingmen’ to generate better chat-up lines This will include “generating conversation prompts based on users' unique profiles and chat histories” Sounds like an episode of Black...
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to bring back users
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Grindr are racing to create chatbots that can coach Gen Z users to flirt X: @raydouglasuk and @keithdsouza Forums: r/hingeapp and r/technology X: Ray Douglas / @raydouglasuk ...