David Brown

Andreev pledges $10 million toward Wolf's next company.

He'll take a majority stake, around 79%, while Wolf will be founder and CEO, with a roughly 20% stake.

By early September, as Wolf's refining her vision for her new company, she settles her lawsuit with Tinder.

Tinder doesn't admit wrongdoing, but reportedly pays her $1 million.

She's no longer just a marketing wunderkind.

She's now something else, too.

A woman who publicly challenged powerful men in tech and survived.

And with the encouragement and financial backing of another powerful man in tech, she's about to rejoin that world.

As Wolf and Andreev keep talking, the idea evolves.

Wolf reverses her earlier stance and decides their new company will be a dating app.

Because the more she thinks about it, the more she sees the problem clearly.

Every other dating app is essentially an open inbox.

Signing up as a woman opens the floodgates.

Anyone can message you.

And what comes through that inbox can be wildly unpleasant.

The idea Andreev and Wolf have hatched flips that.

Women won't just be users.

They'll be the ones holding the keys.

They'll decide when a conversation starts, and ideally, that means fewer of the kinds of messages and experiences Wolf herself just endured after she sued Tinder.

Less than six months later, in December 2014, this female-first Tinder competitor launches.