Spite Is a Hell of a Drug

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I don’t know a damn thing about dating apps — I couldn’t tell you if you swipe right or swipe left to match — but I know plenty about spite, and I’m a big believer in its motivating power, especially when that spite is rooted in doing what’s right.

Hulu’s movie about Whitney Wolfe, the founder of Bumble, unfortunately leans too neatly into the familiar start-up founder mold, but I’ll give Swiped this much: it’s refreshing to see a start-up founder succeed for the right reasons, instead of yet another story about a disgraced entrepreneur going down in flames because of greed or misconduct. I’m sure there’s more to the real story than what’s shown in Swiped , but I appreciate the takeawa — it is possible to succeed by creating somet

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