How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Exclusive! How to Win on Dating Apps—Secrets from the Man Who Invented Swiping, Tinder’s Jonathan Badeen
23 Jan 2025
Ready to finally get great matches on Tinder? Who better to guide you than the man who invented swiping and changed dating forever: Tinder’s visionary co-founder, Jonathan Badeen. Back in the day, Jonathan was struggling to meet women and get dates. (Sound familiar?) He launched Tinder in part to help his own love life, and the world has never been the same. In this exclusive interview with dating coach Connell Barrett, Badeen shares the lightbulb moment when he came up with the swiping idea, reveals the biggest mistakes men make on the apps, and explains why he would absolutely swipe right on Minnie Mouse.In this episode, Jonathan and Connell talk about:2:37: Why Tinder is for More than Just Hookups14:01: The Aha Moment when Jonathan Came Up with Swiping17:26: Why Authenticity is What Women Want—on Tinder and in Real Life26:33: The Real Reason You’re Not Getting Good Matches30:15: The Myth that “Dating Apps Just Don’t Work”34:04: How to Inject Fun into Your profile to Get Women Messaging You First35:47: How Shy Guys and “Nerds” Can Win on the Apps47:01: Why Jonathan Would Swipe Right on Minnie Mouse and Swipe Left on “The Godfather 3”Listen now for wisdom from the man who changed dating—and start landing great Tinder dates today.FOR A FREE STRATEGY CALL WITH CONNELL TO LEARN HOW TO HAVE GREAT FIRST DATES:http://www.datingtransformation.com/contactTO GET FREE ACCESS TO “THE FLIRTY 30,” CHARMING QUESTIONS TO ASK WOMEN ON DATES, ON THE APPS, AND WHEN YOU APPROACH:http://www.datingtransformation.com/FLIRTY30WANT A FREE COPY OF CONNELL’S NO. 1 AMAZON BESTSELLING BOOK, “DATING SUCKS BUT YOU DON’T”? EMAIL CONNELL AND WRITE “FREE BOOK” IN THE SUBJECT LINE AND YOU’LL GET IT INSTANTLY:[email protected]
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I woke up one morning, just literally woke up, sat up in bed and was like, oh my God, I've got it.
And welcome back to the How to Get a Girlfriend podcast. I'm your host, dating coach, Conal Barrett. I'm here to help you learn to flirt, gain confidence, and attract an incredible girlfriend all by being authentic. No sketchy pickup artist moves needed. And today we have a pretty amazing, pretty special guest. I'm really psyched to welcome to the podcast, Jonathan Baddine.
Jonathan isn't just the co-founder of Tinder, but he's the mastermind behind the iconic swiping feature that has changed the way online dating happens forever. Thanks to his work, billions of people have swiped, have matched, have connected, and and essentially totally reshaped how we date in the digital age. These days, Jonathan is very busy watching a lot of TV and going to Disney World.
We'll hear more about that in a second. He's really an innovator, and we're lucky to have him. He's going to help you have some success with online dating and find some really great dates and have some success. Jonathan, thank you so much for joining me on the How to Get a Girlfriend podcast. Thanks for having me. It's awesome to be here. Let me start with a play devil's advocate about something.
I'll tell you something I hear from a lot of my clients when I send them to Tinder and to other online dating platforms. They say, ah, Tinder, come on. That's for hookups. It's for casual flings. That's not where I'm going to find love. It's not where I'm going to find a girlfriend. What's your response to that?
I'd say two parts to that. One, you know, most relationships probably started with a hookup. So just because people, you know, a large contingent of users on Tinder, I think it's a majority, I don't know the latest numbers or whatnot, but, you know, they're actually looking for a relationship. Doesn't mean they're not. open to a hookup. So there is that.
But on top of that, it is used for everything. The number of marriages that have happened is insane. I get invited to different weddings and stuff like that. And it's really what you make of it. I think some of that stigma really came out of the fact that we launched the app on college campuses. That's sort of where we started. And that's kind of That market, that's kind of what they do.
They're a little bit more hookup-centric and all, and so it kind of came from that. But it really isn't. It's whatever it is that you're looking for, you should be able to find it on Tinder and, of course, the other platforms.
Absolutely. I have dated some wonderful women I met on Tinder and other apps, but we're going to talk about Tinder today for obvious reasons. And I had some flings and I had some real relationships. And to your point, I had a couple things that started off seemingly casual, but then they became something a lot deeper.
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