In 2014, after leaving Tinder, Whitney Wolfe Herd could have walked away from tech altogether.
Instead, she created Bumble, a platform built around a simple but radical idea: women should make the first move.
Critics questioned whether the concept would scale. Users proved them wrong.
Within a few years, Bumble became one of the world’s most recognizable dating platforms, operating across roughly 150 countries. In 2021, Wolfe Herd became the youngest woman to take a company public in the United States and one of the youngest self-made female billionaires in the world.
