David Brown

Her phone is buzzing over and over again.

She reaches over to her nightstand and opens Twitter.

There are dozens of messages waiting for her.

She's just made headlines for suing Tinder, Match.com, and their parent company, IAC.

Wolf alleges she was the victim of, quote, atrocious sexual harassment and sex discrimination during her two-year stint at Tinder.

Shortly after graduating from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Wolf co-founded Tinder and began marketing the fledgling app to college students, pushing it through sororities and fraternities until Tinder spread across campuses nationwide.

But while the company was taking off, her personal life was unraveling.

Wolf had been dating Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, and the pair did not prove to be a match.

When the relationship ended, things unraveled fast in the office, and Wolf left the company.

Two months later, she filed her lawsuit, claiming that Mateen was verbally abusive toward her.

Wolf says that at a company party, her ex even called her a whore.

The lawsuit claims Tinder tolerated this behavior and describes the company's culture as misogynistic.

Wolf may have sued Tinder, but in calling out the alpha male startup stereotypes, she was also taking aim at something bigger, Silicon Valley's boys club.

And now, alone in the dark, scrolling through message after message, she's seeing what happens when you challenge that system publicly.

The backlash is immediate and vicious.

The messages are filled with profanity and threats and accuse her of being an opportunist,

Wolf takes the insults personally, and they hit hard.

A feeling of worthlessness starts to creep in.

Later that day, a journalist knocks on Wolf's door.

He's hoping to get an exclusive of her side of the story.