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Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge.
  • Justin McLeod accepted a job offer from the consulting firm McKinsey while in business school. 
  • However, he kept delaying starting the job for two years. 
  • McLeod had invested his $12,000 signing bonus into an idea for a dating website called Hinge. 

Hinge's CEO accepted a job offer from McKinsey while in business school but kept delaying the start date, to work on his idea for a dating website, CNBC Make It reported. 

Justin McLeod attended Harvard Business School from 2009 to 2011 and received a job offer from the prestigious consulting company in his second year of business school, he told CNBC Make It in a recent interview.