Shane: What are you obsessed with right now?
Sarah: Strength training. I’ve gotten really into lifting heavy weights. There’s something that’s so cathartic about just like picking up a huge kettlebell and swinging it many times. And I feel like I’ve had various chapters with fitness in my life and mostly lean towards endurance stuff, like long distance swimming, running, I did do an Ironman at one point, but had never really gotten into strength training until for health reasons, I was told my bones are at risk, so I need to pound them basically and make them stronger. And started working with someone who’s really helped me with that and then love it. I do it twice a week. It’s like the highlight of my week. So I would say I’m obsessed with training.
Shane: That’s awesome. You joined Bumble in 2017 and your job was to scale the company and take over strategy. What did you do specifically to scale the company and what do you know about scaling that most people miss?
Sarah: I joined Bumble in 2017, was about 30 people in a two bedroom apartment at that point. And there was more creative energy and passion and just clarity of purpose, and I think I’d ever experienced at a business in my life. And this was an interesting learning for me because…Become a member to access the full transcript.