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Whitney Wolfe Herd speaking on stage in a navy suit at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, 2018.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder and CEO, Bumble.

Founded Bumble in 2014.

EditorialAn editorial profile written by Ceolumen from public sources. Whitney Wolfe Herd is not a Ceolumen member and has not endorsed Ceolumen. Disclosures

Profile

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and chief executive of Bumble, the dating and social app company. She started it in 2014, after leaving Tinder, where she had been a co-founder and vice president of marketing. When Bumble went public in 2021 she was 31, the youngest woman to take a company public in the United States.

She stepped into the role of executive chair in January 2024 and returned as chief executive in March 2025.

Wolfe Herd was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1989 and studied international studies at Southern Methodist University.

Sources

  1. Whitney Wolfe Herd Wikipedia
  2. Bumble stock jumps 35% despite 10% revenue drop as investors bet on turnaround Fortune

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Whitney Wolfe Herd speaking on stage in a navy suit at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, 2018. Photograph by TechCrunch, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Cropped from the original by Ceolumen.

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