‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 10, 2025
It feels like a lifetime ago, but when Whitney Wolfe Herd co-founded her first company, the dating app Tinder, the overwhelming feeling about apps and screens and tech in general was optimism. This was 2012, Wolfe Herd was just out of college, and she, too, was optimistic — about being a woman in tech, about dating apps, about technology’s ability to solve big problems. In the decade-plus since, Wolfe Herd and the culture have learned some lessons.
Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive . . .
