Meredith Davis | Head of Community at The League

TL;DR

Meredith Davis transitioned from studying human sexuality at the Kinsey Institute and working in luxury sex toys to becoming the first employee of The League dating app after being fired from her previous job for reporting harassment. She landed the role by persistently emailing every guessed address of the founder.

Key insights

• Davis created her own undergraduate major in human sexuality and conducted sex research at the Kinsey Institute for four years, but hated research because she is too extroverted.
• After graduation she joined a high-end luxury sex toy manufacturer whose mission aligned with her own, but the company was acquired by a porn-industry-backed firm she describes as misogynistic and une
• At the acquired company she was asked to unbutton her shirt at client meetings and sit on vendors’ laps; when she complained to the CEO, she was fired.