Bumble's Russian Business Partner Is a Total Sleazeball
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The dating app Bumble is widely considered a sort of women-friendly alternative when it comes to most hellish dating apps, famously letting women make the first interaction. That the company’s founder is Whitney Wolfe Herd, who left Tinder and sued them for sexual harassment upon, also gives Bumble a sheen of empowerment. But Bumble’s partner is Andrey Andreev, a Russian billionaire and dating app mogul who also runs the app Badoo, and owns between 59% to 79% of the company. According to a new report from Forbes, Andreev and Badoo have a history of sleazy workplace misconduct, a reality that negates the women-friendly appearance of Bumble.
The Forbes report lays out a history of misconduct at Andreev’s dating app Badoo, including a history of wild parties filled with naked staff members and lines of coke (which Andreev denies being aware of) and naming software updates after porn stars. A former chief marketing officer says that she was “told to act pretty for investors and make job candidates ‘horny’ to work for Badoo” and that if you disagreed with Andreev you were “called a ‘cyka’ (bitch in Russian).”