Whether you know the name Whitney Wolfe Herd or not, you will surely be familiar with her work. The tech entrepreneur helped transform the online dating industry in the 2010s by co-creating not one but two wildly successful apps – Tinder and, later, Bumble .
Her story – which includes her rise to co-founder status at Tinder, her subsequent forced resignation from Tinder parent company Hatch Labs, the lawsuit between herself and her former Tinder bosses and her rocky journey to creating her own app, Bumble – is the subject of Hulu’s new film, Swiped , starring Lily James as Whitney.
Ahead of the film’s release, we caught up with the writer and director of Swiped, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, to discuss portraying toxic male behaviour in the workplace, her admiration for Whitney and maki