Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on the Jeff Bezos Quote That Was 'a Guiding Light for Me' – NBC10 Philadelphia
Indeed, an Amazon spokesperson told The New York Times in 2001 that Bezos had said, "there is something about e-mail that turns off the politeness gene in people." The quote resonated with Wolfe Herd: "That has been a guiding light for me, because we've always tried to engineer accountability into everything we do [at Bumble]." "Ultimately, online behavior can both mirror and predict how people treat each other in the real world," the company wrote on its website at the time. "Bumble has a responsibility to our community and a larger goal to encourage accountability offline." Some argue datin...