I want to talk a little bit about the technology
behind it because algorithms seem to rule the world right
now and everything around us and can also dictate your
fate on a dating app. How does bumble decide
who to show you? I would actually argue that
it supercharges fate. If you were to walk into
a bar waiting for that perfect someone, you'd have
to be there at the right moment at the exact
right time and place bumble for the same cost of
a couple of drinks at the bar, gives you
unlimited access to people in your area who might be
on the other side of town or showed up at
the bar five minutes after you left. I've heard
people say I'm done with dating apps like I can't
, I can't do this anymore. What do you
say to someone who's been unlucky on the apps for
a long time? I say take a pause.
We are not in the business of exploiting people's well
being to keep them on our product. Dating is
also cyclical relationships, end breakups happen, divorces happen
. I love these stories when I hear them but
very rarely do you hear of someone who spent their
entire life with the same person. So when you
actually take a longer term horizon, you know,
the reengaged customer is a really important business and A
I is going to be a huge tail wind to
this, a huge catalyst to helping people really both
shine but also attract in terms of compatibility and better
matching. Chat bots are chatbots already in dating apps
, is that happening? Spinning? So chat bots
are you know, all the hype right now on
on the internet. Here's where I think a chat
bot becomes powerful. The average US single adult single
doesn't date because they don't know how to flirt or
they're scared. They don't know how, what if
you could leverage the chat bot to instill confidence to
help someone feel really secure before they go and talk
to a bunch of people that they don't know yet
. Is there anything about an A I powered dating
future that makes you worry, you know, that
seems a little black mirror. Always find your perfect
map. It really does work. Another coach.
Is this a mistake? I mean, you have
to just engineer things to operate within certain guard rails
and boundaries and you have to steer things in the
right direction. So is the world suggesting that the
whole world replaces human connection with the chat bot?
If that is truly the case, I promise you
, we have bigger issues than bumble. I don't
think you will ever replace the need for real love
and human connection.