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Hinge founder Justin McLeod tells the story of building and rebuilding the dating app. Discusses pivoting from a swiping app to a relationship-focused platform, his personal love story that inspired the rebrand, and designing for meaningful connections.
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McLeod credits getting sober as the single decision that made everything else possible: it restored the relationship that inspired Hinge's pivot, and it gave him the clarity to make bold business decisions.
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McLeod's personal love story — losing and reconnecting with his college girlfriend — drove Hinge's pivot to designed to be deleted
McLeod's decision to pivot Hinge from a casual swiping app to a relationship-focused platform was directly inspired by his personal experience of reconnecting with a lost love, proving that personal meaning drives business innovation.Was this useful?