How The League founder went from $200,000 in debt to making her first million with a dating app for the young, ambitious, and wealthy

When the 39-year-old was earning her MBA at Stanford, she found herself unenthused and let down by the current crop of dating apps, which she called “essentially a game of hot or not.” So, the computer science buff andSalesforce alum took matters into her hands; she reimagined the parameters of online dating by adding an extra emphasis on selectivity and an unmistakable air of prestige. In 2014, in the heyday of the Silicon Valley startup boom, that app, The League, was born.