Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on achieving success: 'The only failure is not trying. Trying and having it not work isn't failure' (via CNBCMakeIt)
But "going out on my own in 2014 was scary," Wolfe Herd said. "It was a risk."
"I am scared of a lot of things, but I try to challenge myself every day to do something that scares me, because 90% of the time, it isn't as bad as you thought it was," she said. To Wolfe Herd, achieving success starts with even the simplest of steps, like "writing your idea down on a piece of paper and putting it on your bathroom mirror and staring at it for two weeks," she said. "That's a first move."
"You have to start somewhere," she said. "Historically, a lot of women have been discouraged to just go for it. We've been riddled with fear, and the 'what ifs,' and the 'don't be too out there,' 'be demure, be quiet.' But start somewhere and go for it."