“He can’t say you’re desperate, because the app made you do it,” she says, adding that she tells her friends to make the first move and just “blame Bumble.” Matches expire after 24 hours, which provides an incentive for women to reach out before it’s too late (the women-message-first feature is only designed for straight couples—if you’re LGBTQ, either party can send the first message.) Wolfe says she had always been comfortable making the first move, even though she felt the stigma around being too forward.“I would say ‘I’m just going to go up to him,’ and all my girlfriends were like ‘Oh no no no no, you can’t do that,'” she says.Chances are if you roll up to a construction site every morning, you’re probably not going to find your future wife while you’re on the job. Running into each other outside of work and hitting up happy hour also top the list of places where things could go from friendly to flirtatious. Professional and Business Solutions The playing field is pretty level.But there’s one essential difference: on Bumble, only women can send a message first.For Wolfe, 25, that key difference is about “changing the landscape” of online dating by putting women in control of the experience.On a sunny May morning in NYC, Whitney Wolfe smoothes her hair (golden) takes a sip of her iced coffee (black) and points across the leafy patio at a handsome guy sitting with a friend.“You swiped right in your head just now,” she says.

It works just like other dating apps—users see pictures of other users, swipe right if they like what they see, and get matched if the interest is mutual.

As a general rule of thumb, office romances are off-limits. Most office romances develop between two equally ranked employees.

It’s what we all tell ourselves—until a new girl sets up shop in the cube next door and leaves us scanning our company’s sexual harassment policy to make sure some harmless flirting at happy hour isn’t going to get us fired. If you’ve set your sights on a woman in the workplace, you’re not alone. Still, 29 percent of workers have dated someone higher up in the company hierarchy, and 16 percent of survey respondents fessed up to dating their boss.

“It’s important to me that nothing we do harms Tinder,” she says. It’s my baby.” But that doesn’t mean she’s not using similar tactics to get it off the ground.

One of Wolfe’s major contributions to Tinder was her ability to get college students to download the app.