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Who needs Tinder (and Bumble) when you work in fintech?
We previously highlighted that former students of Tinder has its fair share of fans In fintech, but it’s not the only dating app getting industry love. Some Bumble technologists are joining fintech, including the one at the top.
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Bumble CTO Yoav Flam left this month to join Redpin, a payments fintech focused on residential real estate markets led by former Worldremit CEO Arnaud Loiseau. Flam says Redpin has “over 800 employees in 10 offices around the world.”
This isn’t Flam’s first foray into fintech. In 2018, he joined the German neobank N26 as director of engineering and the following year became interim CTO. Flam left the role in 2020, before German regulators put a cap on the number of signups the bank could get due to poor anti-money laundering controls in 2021, a decision that was only reversed last week. He then joined food solutions company HelloFresh before finally joining Bumble in late 2022.
Elsewhere, some of the biggest names in fintech are hiring from dating app providers. This month, Revolution hired Max Cruz, a senior android engineer at Bumble. Coinbase played on the field and hired by multiple apps; Tinder’s chief technical officer, Yuki Sawa, joined in December, while Hinge Artificial intelligence engineer Saad Shamim joined in March.
Glassdoor reviews for Bumble bear many similarities to what we’ve seen on Tinder. Remote work is great, the working hours are “very short” and the colleagues are “very good”, but there is a lot of criticism of the management and “too many changes happen too often”. The company has also been criticized removing the unique feature it was built around the fact that women had to send a message first. Some poorly received anti-celibacy ads it may also have done more harm than good to the public perception of the brand.
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