BUSINESS INSIDER – Tina Wilson, founder of Wingman, developed the app to involve friends in the dating process. Despite skepticism from industry insiders, Wilson believes Gen Z values the "karmic reward" of helping others find connections. Wingman's voice note feature allows friends to share insights, adding authenticity and encouraging better dating etiquette. The app aims to provide a fun alternative to mainstream dating platforms, which many users find have become too focused on profit and surface-level interactions.
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Gen Z Prefer Digital First Dates
NEW YORK POST – A Wingman survey of 500 people aged 18 to 27 found that 65% of Gen Z prefer digital first dates, mainly for efficiency and cost-saving reasons. The trend, popularized during the pandemic, allows for quick compatibility checks and multiple dates without the expenses of dining out or transportation. However, it risks missing out on deeper, in-person connections.
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Q&A With Wingman Founder and CEO Tina Wilson
BUSINESSLEADER – July 21 –
Q: How is Wingman unique?
A: Wingman makes online dating a team effort, allowing friends and family to play virtual matchmaker.
Q: When you launched your business what do you wish you had known?
A: Every journey begins from a different starting point and people love to talk about the highs and not the lows. Comparing your journey to someone else is pointless. It is all a learning process.
Q: Do you as a female entrepreneur in tech sometimes face additional challenges when it comes to 'owning' a room?
A: There are many men out there who celebrate women breaking barriers (admittedly it's the minority) but I focused on finding those people and using them as mentors and advisors.
Q: What advice would you give to budding entrepreneurs?
A: Preparation, research and resilience are key. All feedback, good and bad, will help you.
Q: How do you aim to grow Wingman in the future?
A: Wingman will continue to grow in the UK with an exciting new feature list being rolled out. Wingman will launch in different countries over the next 12 months.
Q&A With CEO of Wingman Dating App
KATU – Oct 21 – Tina Wilson, CEO of dating app Wingman, talks about her dating app where users' friends and family write the profile and pick dates for them.
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Dating Apps Wingman and Ship Let Friends Take Over
ESQUIRE – Mar 18 – Tina Wilson is the founder of Wingman, a 3-year-old app that allows users to recruit friends and family to swipe on their behalf. Like many, she was irritated by the fake profiles and bad matches that come with online dating. "I kind of had that light bulb moment," says Wilson. "Wow, wouldn't it be fun if I could just let my friends do it for me? They have great insights. They're always going to toot my horn, and they love me, but they can also talk about my flaws and help me bypass some of the craziness that goes on." Ship is another friend-swiping app that launched last year. It is not surprising that both Wingman and Ship were founded by women; men, studies have found, often have a harder time than women building and maintaining friendships. In Britain, nearly 1 in 5 men says he has no friends at all. According to a spokesperson for Ship, women tend to have more friends swiping on their behalf than men do.
Q&A With Tina Wilson, Founder of Wingman Dating App
WUSA9 – July 17 – Tina Wilson explains how she decided to create a dating app when she noticed that the apps were all created by men. She also describes how this app includes singles' friends to help them find the right matches.
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Why Millennials Are Burnt Out on Swipe-Based Dating Apps
MENSHEALTH – Feb 6 – Hinge's user base grew by 400% in 2017 after it eliminated its swiping feature. Once, a dating app that sends users one suggested match per day, reached 7M downloads last May. Still, swiping or not, some are giving up dating apps altogether, opting for offline dating and matchmaking services like Three Day Rule, which doubled its revenue in 2017, and now serves 10 cities in the U.S. "The online dating thing never came naturally to me. I found the experience quite overwhelming," says Tina Wilson, CEO and founder of the matchmaking app Wingman. "Trying to describe myself for a profile gave me anxiety." Eventually, Wilson's friends got involved. "They had way better insight into who I should be dating and loved to tell me so," she says. She realized her friends could play a vital role in helping her meet a compatible partner, so she created Wingman, an app that allows users' friends play matchmaker. Text-based apps are also on the rise. A spin-off of the popular Instagram account @_personals_, the Personals app will allow its lesbian, queer, transgender, and nonbinary users to post old-school personal ads.
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