Jonathan Badeen
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219 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah. And that was the moment where, to me, all of a sudden I was like, oh my God, we tapped into something. And it wasn't long after that where we actually did start including the swipe terminology in our marketing, in our Twitter accounts or Instagram and all of that sort of stuff. And so we started talking about it that way.
But that was really only in response from it sort of taking a life of its own.
Was this like, so I woke up with this epiphany and I go in, I go into the shower and I'm standing there in the shower, like going like, I'm like, does that work? Is that, you know, why hasn't anybody done this before? You know? So, so I was like, it was, I was like basically thinking through it, you know, completely in the shower, but there was no fogged up mirror, you know, but.
I think it absolutely does. I mean, ultimately it's only going to, that's the only way you're going to succeed, you know, unless you are strictly looking for hookups and, you know, can keep the lie going or something for a while. But, uh, you know, ultimately, uh, whatever facade that you put up, it's going to, it's going to break down.
So you might as well start off and get the people that you're, you know, as you said, who are more going to be more interesting to you or, and interested in you. Um, But Tinder in many ways was really built to try to drive authenticity. I don't think people realize this today as much, but some of the features that we originally did were including things like shared friends.
That was sort of taken away from us at a certain point, but that was a big thing. And for sort of safety, and you could essentially vet people, but it was trying to show that authentic person. You didn't get to choose your name on there. You didn't get to choose the original version of Tinder. You couldn't even choose your photo. It was your Facebook photo.
It was locked to that, trying to get that real photo that you share with your family and friends. It showed your shared interest with the person. Of course, today it's useless, but based upon Facebook interest, you're not sitting there lying. These are the things that you liked on Facebook. You weren't doing it for the purpose of that. I think that was really what we were trying to do. Of course,
people have other ideas a lot of the time, but, um, but that is where we were really going. And cause we think it is, uh, we thought it was so important, uh, to sort of, to, to show an authentic side of oneself.
Um, and you know, and people are going to see through it if it, if you're not, um, and it's going to, uh, at worst turn or at best turn somebody off, uh, away to at worst make somebody think you're, creepy and deceitful.
I have done that once. What did you do? Sharks in the Caribbean.
No, I did it once. I'm not suggesting you should go do it.
Yeah, I did. Oh, I see what you mean.
I'm not the adventure person. Sorry. Sorry for interrupting.
Absolutely. And I think, you know...
really shouldn't try to predict what somebody else wants anyway because I mean like I think there's you look at it you know oh I'm looking for somebody who's interested in the same things as me right that's that's the key to success of relationship or is it because they also say opposites attract so I mean like you almost you don't necessarily even know what it is and so maybe you know it's not really worth it to try to predict what the other person is wanting because you know it may not be that or they may not even know what it is until they see what it is
Oh, there's a billion. I mean, that's, that's actually one of the most frustrating things as time goes on is, is that you just, you build this, uh, you know, everybody in that company just had a long list. The, the, the list of things that we wanted to make, uh, just went on forever. Um, and, uh, and it was just a matter of picking which one are we going to try?
So there's, there's all sorts of things that, uh, uh, that we, that we wanted.
Well, I think one of my favorites that I wanted to do was a... I won't go into full detail on it just in case anybody cares or whatever, but it was basically sort of a group dating bar hopping type of product that I thought would have been pretty cool trying to use Tinder, which was trying to essentially make Tinder useful at a time when... uh, the Tinder isn't generally useful.
Cause you know, like Tinder, for instance, like one of the, you know, the lower usage days are the days where people are out and busy and they've got things going on. You know, the, you know, that's the time when people have downtime, that's the time where they really use Tinder.
And so it was, uh, that was sort of the goal is to try to like try to make Tinder useful at those times when you're out and about with your friends and all of that.
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