Sorry, Kylie Jenner, Bumble’s founder is the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world: why did Whitney Wolfe Herd quit Tinder and what did she have to do with Priyanka Chopra?
- Forget Kylie Jenner’s disputed claim, Forbes crowned the Bumble CEO the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire after she took her Tinder rival public
- Wolfe Herd was already an entrepreneur even as a university student, when she raised funds to help victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill crisis
But we did a little digging and discovered that this accomplished woman happens to be way more than her latest headline-making title.
She used to work at Tinder
In the sizzling world of dating apps, Bumble and Tinder are known to be rivals – yet these popular online platforms apparently have even more in common than what people may think. Wolfe Herd was a co-founder and vice-president of marketing at Tinder before founding Bumble in 2014. Unfortunately, she left the former after filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company, confidentially settling the case.
She had a unique vision for Bumble
Bumble has successfully been established as a networking and dating app for everyone, but its CEO initially had another idea in mind: a women-only social platform for teenagers. Although this idea didn’t come to fruition, the app continues to empower women by giving them control to make the first move.