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The first time, we met for coffee (although, ironically, neither of us drink coffee) and chatted for a few hours. He called me the next day to ask me out for Valentine's Day. He told me that he felt like he had known me for 6 months, and I felt the same. – Nate & Kristin. Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) is a highly curated dating service where women call the final shot on who gets to talk to them among guys who expressed interest. We believe that the best dating experience is offered through a differentiated service for men and women.

Coffee Meets Bagel is an online dating app for singles looking for real relationships.

After two years with Lever, Coffee Meets Bagel needed to speed up their recruiting to avoid losing great candidates.

1. It's this guided approach that's sparked thousands of lasting relationships. 💜 ABOUT THE APP Coffee Meets Bagel started with three sisters who knew firsthand that swiping doesn't work — not to.
2. $1 to $5 million (USD) Coffee Meets Bagel started with three sisters who knew firsthand that swiping doesn't work — not to mention it's totally draining. So they made a dating app that does the work for you. Like a real-life matchmaker, CMB introduces you only to people worth your time.
3. Coffee Meets Bagel, San Francisco, California. 46,277 likes 504 talking about this 86 were here. The original anti-swiping app.

Lever's features increase transparency into candidate communications. The simple UI helps all new employees swiftly get up to speed on Lever and involved in the hiring process.

Coffee Meets Bagel now has a streamlined, collaborative hiring process, helping them fuel continued growth.

As one of Lever's earliest customers, Coffee Meets Bagel, a dating application, has seen their hiring process evolve as their team has grown. One thing that hasn't changed is the highly cross-functional hiring process—their CEO, for instance, meets with every single candidate during the first round of interviews. But with the company's continued growth came the challenge of keeping recruiting collaborative. As a result, the CMB team needed to find ways to keep everyone involved in the hiring process, while still giving them time to take on their day-to-day responsibilities.

With such a collaborative hiring process, the Coffee Meets Bagel team needed to focus on transparency and timeliness. With all correspondence tracked in Lever, everyone can see what's been communicated to the candidate, especially when the hiring team sends emails on behalf of the CEO and co-founders. This allows their CEO to be up to speed when she meets candidates, creating a seamless interview experience. 'Lever's email sync has made a tremendous difference in our recruiting,' noted David Miller, CMB's Hiring Manager. 'We now have 100% transparency across our entire organization, so when my CEO conducts an interview she can be fully informed, quickly.'

While e-mail sync helps fuel transparency, the engineering team cited the notes and tagging features as key to a timely recruiting process. All engineering candidates complete a coding challenge, and the engineering lead can review the results and leave feedback–all within Lever. 'The engineers put their feedback in the candidate profile, and Lever alerts me when they're done,' David shared. 'We strive to be incredibly timely in our process, so being able to update our team within Lever means all information is instantly available and easily accessible.'

The team's incredible growth made it highly important that new team members can get up to speed on Lever quickly so they can contribute to the process as interviewers. 'It's so easy for new hires to jump on and learn Lever, we've never had to do any sort of training,' remarked Mica Gallanosa, Operations Manager. By using Lever to create a flexible hiring process, Coffee Meets Bagel has maintained their highly collaborative recruiting process while growing the team by 3x in two years. 'Lever is always one step ahead of our hiring needs,' David shared. 'Lever's features are easy to learn, and easy to love.'

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This story is part of the Behind the Desk series where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get out of bed in the morning to their daily routines.

For Dawoon Kang, co-founder of dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, entrepreneurship is in her blood.

Both her parents started their own businesses in Korea, even though that wasn't typical there, Kang tells CNBC Make It.

Kang emigrated from Korea to the U.S. when she was 12 with her twin sister, Arum, and their older sister, Soo. A family friend looked after the girls while their parents stayed in Korea to run their business.

'Being an immigrant had a huge impact on my identity,' Kang says. That and being a woman 'really shaped my world view,' she says.

In the U.S., the sisters overcame challenges together, including acclimating to the U.S. and learning English. It bonded them, and as adults they became business partners.

Arum had the idea to create Coffee Meets Bagel in 2011, and the following year Kang quit her job at JPMorgan to launch the app with Arum and Soo.

'It just felt natural,' Kang says.

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Kang originally took on the role of COO, then became CEO in 2016. Today, she is the chief dating officer, focusing on 'the science of dating' to improve the app's user experience and match results.

Here, Kang shares her experience adapting in the U.S., leaving her job at JPMorgan to start Coffee Meets Bagel, her daily routine and more.

On immigrating: 'I was very quiet for a long time'

I was a very vocal, outspoken child when I was in Korea. That was such a big part of who I thought I was, and not being able to [speak English and] do that, it really shook me to the core. Because I was very embarrassed about speaking up and making grammatical mistakes, I was very quiet for a long time.

It took me a very long time to get over that and be able to even think about actually running a company and to articulate my vision to people. It takes a lot of courage.

At the end of the day, I realized it didn't really matter if I was making mistakes. The emotion that I was having, it communicates. If you believe [mistakes matter], then it's going to become an obstacle to whatever you want to do.

On her entrepreneurial parents: 'That was really inspiring'

My dad started his own scrap iron business when he graduated from college. He actually never worked for anyone else in his life. Dating clubs near idaho city. I grew up seeing how much love and passion he was putting into his business and the legacy that he wanted to build. So, that was really inspiring.

My mom also operated a few shops. She had to speak in front of people and be a leader, and that wasn't something that was natural for her. In her generation growing up in Korea, that's just not what women did.

She actually enrolled herself in a Dale Carnegie kind of institution to learn how to speak better. She would practice in front of us. It was so endearing. Even though it was uncomfortable and embarrassing, she was still willing to go through that.

That's what life is all about. You learn, and then it becomes comfortable, and then you try something else. That persistence I learned from her.

On quitting JPMorgan: 'You never know how it's going to play out'

[At JP Morgan], I was enjoying my work. But I knew that at the core, it didn't fulfill some of the needs that I had.

Then my sister [Arum] graduated from Harvard Business School and initiated the idea: 'Hey, we always talked about starting a business. Why don't we actually do it now?'

I saw Jeff Bezos speaking about how he makes major decisions in his life, and he looks at himself when he's 60 or 70 and asks himself things like, would I regret this decision if I don't take it? I knew immediately, instinctively, that I would [regret it] if I didn't actually take the time to try this. So, when I used that framework, it was a very easy decision.

Everything comes together in the end, even if you didn't really plan for it, which is why I think it's important to just follow your gut. See what kind of things draw you in, because you just never know how it's going to play out.

On diversity: 'That has an impact on how we show up'

Exclusive dating service in mount holly north carolina. When we think of an entrepreneur, we typically think of about Mark Zuckerberg, quintessential classic Silicon Valley. And if you don't fit into that specific role, you could feel like, maybe I'm not cut out for this.

I remember every time I walked into an investor pitch, my investor committee was all white guys, and I'm the only person who is female and Asian. That had an impact on me. Subconsciously and consciously, that has an impact on how we show up. When you walk into the room and you're the only person who looks like that, whatever that is, or you're 'the only,' then immediately, you're going to feel that you're not seen or understood.

To create an inclusive environment is very, very important. As a business person, you're actually servicing all kinds of consumers, and if you don't have those consumers represented in the people who actually work on the products, you just don't have the edge. From a business perspective, it's no brainer. Diversity has to come first.

On parallels between business and dating: 'Why don't we apply quarterly reviews to relationships?'

It's funny, one of the key skills that I learned to be a better leader and manager at work translates to my dating life – 'compassionate communication.' I learned it for work, but I also used it in dating and with my current partner.

Black dating lakeland fl. A lot of business practices, Iike quarterly reviews — why don't we apply this to relationships, like relationship reviews? It's an opportunity to step back and think about areas that are working and not working well in your relationship, because you could always be doing better.

On her daily routine: 'I get so sucked into work'

Sleeping has a critical impact on my mental health. Without it, I just can't function. That's actually why I also cut out alcohol, because I realized that when I drink, I don't sleep well.

I go to sleep at 9 p.m. these days. I don't have an alarm clock, so I wake up whenever, usually between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.

Once my day starts, I get so sucked into work. So meditation, exercise, affirmation and writing [in a journal], I always do each day in the morning. My routine is based on 'The Morning Miracle: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 a.m.' by Hal Elrod.

I [also] reflect and I share what I am grateful for each day with my sister, Arum, because we are able to uplift each other. It is such a simple thing, but it's so powerful. It's not a magic pill, but once you [express gratitude] consistently, you're going to see it has an impact.

So much of your life experience and the choices that you make is based on your beliefs and how you see the world. And your view depends on your mental state. So, I'm a big believer of getting into the habit of keeping your mental state happy.

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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

This story is part of the Behind the Desk series where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get out of bed in the morning to their daily routines.

For Dawoon Kang, co-founder of dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, entrepreneurship is in her blood.

Both her parents started their own businesses in Korea, even though that wasn't typical there, Kang tells CNBC Make It.

Kang emigrated from Korea to the U.S. when she was 12 with her twin sister, Arum, and their older sister, Soo. A family friend looked after the girls while their parents stayed in Korea to run their business.

'Being an immigrant had a huge impact on my identity,' Kang says. That and being a woman 'really shaped my world view,' she says.

In the U.S., the sisters overcame challenges together, including acclimating to the U.S. and learning English. It bonded them, and as adults they became business partners.

Arum had the idea to create Coffee Meets Bagel in 2011, and the following year Kang quit her job at JPMorgan to launch the app with Arum and Soo.

'It just felt natural,' Kang says.

Coffee Meets Bagel Review

Kang originally took on the role of COO, then became CEO in 2016. Today, she is the chief dating officer, focusing on 'the science of dating' to improve the app's user experience and match results.

Here, Kang shares her experience adapting in the U.S., leaving her job at JPMorgan to start Coffee Meets Bagel, her daily routine and more.

On immigrating: 'I was very quiet for a long time'

I was a very vocal, outspoken child when I was in Korea. That was such a big part of who I thought I was, and not being able to [speak English and] do that, it really shook me to the core. Because I was very embarrassed about speaking up and making grammatical mistakes, I was very quiet for a long time.

It took me a very long time to get over that and be able to even think about actually running a company and to articulate my vision to people. It takes a lot of courage.

At the end of the day, I realized it didn't really matter if I was making mistakes. The emotion that I was having, it communicates. If you believe [mistakes matter], then it's going to become an obstacle to whatever you want to do.

On her entrepreneurial parents: 'That was really inspiring'

My dad started his own scrap iron business when he graduated from college. He actually never worked for anyone else in his life. Dating clubs near idaho city. I grew up seeing how much love and passion he was putting into his business and the legacy that he wanted to build. So, that was really inspiring.

My mom also operated a few shops. She had to speak in front of people and be a leader, and that wasn't something that was natural for her. In her generation growing up in Korea, that's just not what women did.

She actually enrolled herself in a Dale Carnegie kind of institution to learn how to speak better. She would practice in front of us. It was so endearing. Even though it was uncomfortable and embarrassing, she was still willing to go through that.

That's what life is all about. You learn, and then it becomes comfortable, and then you try something else. That persistence I learned from her.

On quitting JPMorgan: 'You never know how it's going to play out'

[At JP Morgan], I was enjoying my work. But I knew that at the core, it didn't fulfill some of the needs that I had.

Then my sister [Arum] graduated from Harvard Business School and initiated the idea: 'Hey, we always talked about starting a business. Why don't we actually do it now?'

I saw Jeff Bezos speaking about how he makes major decisions in his life, and he looks at himself when he's 60 or 70 and asks himself things like, would I regret this decision if I don't take it? I knew immediately, instinctively, that I would [regret it] if I didn't actually take the time to try this. So, when I used that framework, it was a very easy decision.

Everything comes together in the end, even if you didn't really plan for it, which is why I think it's important to just follow your gut. See what kind of things draw you in, because you just never know how it's going to play out.

On diversity: 'That has an impact on how we show up'

Exclusive dating service in mount holly north carolina. When we think of an entrepreneur, we typically think of about Mark Zuckerberg, quintessential classic Silicon Valley. And if you don't fit into that specific role, you could feel like, maybe I'm not cut out for this.

I remember every time I walked into an investor pitch, my investor committee was all white guys, and I'm the only person who is female and Asian. That had an impact on me. Subconsciously and consciously, that has an impact on how we show up. When you walk into the room and you're the only person who looks like that, whatever that is, or you're 'the only,' then immediately, you're going to feel that you're not seen or understood.

To create an inclusive environment is very, very important. As a business person, you're actually servicing all kinds of consumers, and if you don't have those consumers represented in the people who actually work on the products, you just don't have the edge. From a business perspective, it's no brainer. Diversity has to come first.

On parallels between business and dating: 'Why don't we apply quarterly reviews to relationships?'

It's funny, one of the key skills that I learned to be a better leader and manager at work translates to my dating life – 'compassionate communication.' I learned it for work, but I also used it in dating and with my current partner.

Black dating lakeland fl. A lot of business practices, Iike quarterly reviews — why don't we apply this to relationships, like relationship reviews? It's an opportunity to step back and think about areas that are working and not working well in your relationship, because you could always be doing better.

On her daily routine: 'I get so sucked into work'

Sleeping has a critical impact on my mental health. Without it, I just can't function. That's actually why I also cut out alcohol, because I realized that when I drink, I don't sleep well.

I go to sleep at 9 p.m. these days. I don't have an alarm clock, so I wake up whenever, usually between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.

Once my day starts, I get so sucked into work. So meditation, exercise, affirmation and writing [in a journal], I always do each day in the morning. My routine is based on 'The Morning Miracle: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 a.m.' by Hal Elrod.

I [also] reflect and I share what I am grateful for each day with my sister, Arum, because we are able to uplift each other. It is such a simple thing, but it's so powerful. It's not a magic pill, but once you [express gratitude] consistently, you're going to see it has an impact.

So much of your life experience and the choices that you make is based on your beliefs and how you see the world. And your view depends on your mental state. So, I'm a big believer of getting into the habit of keeping your mental state happy.

Coffee Meets Bagel Profile

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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