Idea
Female as a differentiator: rebuild big categories for women
Shaan's thesis that you can create a whole new product by taking an existing category and gearing it strongly toward women, citing Bumble (dating), The Wing (co-working), and a Solo Female Traveler Network doing $1M+/year by layering female-oriented tours on a Facebook group. Underdeveloped categories include media and financial services.
“Yeah, I just wrote that because I was like, dude, there's so many products that if you just said it's that, but really geared towards women. I think you can make a whole new product just off of that.”
Steal thisTake a big existing category (banking, media, credit cards) and rebuild it authentically for women, avoiding the patronizing 'girl boss' tone customers hate.
Idea
A shared 'global blacklist' alliance for dating and social app safety
Bradford pitches an industry alliance where independent dating and messaging apps share a blacklist of bad actors and predators, so a banned user can't simply move from The League to Hinge, Bumble, or Coffee Meets Bagel. No current business model is incentivized to share that data.
“What we've wanted to always build is sort of this global blacklist, I guess you could think of it, where there's all these bad actors. And all of us are the non-Facebook and the non-Google people. We like don't have huge databases and machine learning teams and giant infrastructure to prevent like thieves from getting on the apps and stuff like that. And we're all literally solving the same problems.”
Steal thisBuild a shared trust-and-safety blacklist co-owned by competitors so banned bad actors can't just hop platforms.