David Brown

Wolf doesn't open the door.

There will be more days and nights like this to come.

More nasty texts.

More journalists trying to get a scoop.

Eventually, Wolf deletes her Twitter account and prepares to leave Los Angeles.

But before she packs her bags, one more message comes through.

This time, it's not a threat or an insult.

It's an email from a Russian tech mogul named Andrei Andreev, and he has a proposition.

It just so happens that Wolf has been busy hatching a plan to turn the Internet into a kinder, gentler place.

To do that, she'll need money, and the wealthy Russian who just slid into her inbox has plenty of it.

So they set a meeting.

And when they finally sit down together, it won't go the way either of them expects.

It's late summer 2014.

With her lawsuit against Tinder still ongoing, Wolf heads to Europe to visit her sister, who's studying at a culinary school in Paris.

But first, she makes a side trip to London.

When she arrives, she heads to a glass and steel office tower to meet with Andrei Andreev, the Russian who emailed her out of the blue.

Andreev runs Badoo, a dating app company popular in Europe and Latin America.

He gives Wolf a tour of his company's offices and then makes his pitch.

Whitney, I love your passion and energy.

I've watched what you did at Tinder, and I think you should join Badu as our chief marketing officer.