Whitney Wolfe Herd

Whitney Wolfe Herd
Herd in 2018
Born
Whitney Wolfe

July 1989 (age 35)
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Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
EducationSouthern Methodist University (BA)
Occupations
  • Entrepreneur
  • business executive
Known for
Spouse
Michael Herd
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(m. 2017)​
Children2

Whitney Wolfe Herd (born July 1, 1989)[1] is an American entrepreneur. She is the founder, executive chair, and former CEO of publicly traded Bumble, an online dating platform, launched in 2014. She is a co-founder of Tinder and was previously its Vice President of Marketing.[2][3]

Herd was named as one of 2017's and 2018's Forbes 30 Under 30, and, in 2018, she was named in the Time 100 List.[4][5][6] In February 2021, Herd became the world's youngest female billionaire when she took Bumble public.[7] She is the youngest woman to have taken a company public in the United States, at age 31.[8]

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  2. ^ Charlotte Alter/Austin (March 19, 2021). "How Whitney Wolfe Herd Turned a Vision of a Better Internet Into a Billion-Dollar Brand". Time. Archived from the original on February 25, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  3. ^ "How I Built This". NPR. Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Ryan Mac (January 3, 2017). "2017 30 Under 30: Consumer Technology – 28 of 30". Forbes. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  5. ^ "Forbes Releases 2018 Edition of the 30 Under 30 List". Forbes. November 14, 2017. Archived from the original on November 14, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  6. ^ Anita Sarkeesian. "Whitney Wolfe Herd". Time. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  7. ^ Mousinho, Katy. "How Whitney Wolfe Herd became the world's youngest female self-made billionaire". Management Today. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  8. ^ "Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd becomes the youngest woman to take a company public". Fortune. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.