Whitney Wolfe Herd is an accomplished American entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to the technology industry.
She is the founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Bumble, the publicly traded online dating platform she launched in 2014.
Before founding Bumble, Wolfe Herd co-founded Tinder and served as its vice president of marketing.
In this role, she played a vital role in the early development and growth of the popular dating app.
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- Full name: Whitney Wolfe Hurd
- Stage name: Whitney Wolfe Hurd
- Date of birth: July 1, 1989
- Age: 35 years old
- Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Nationality: United States
- Occupation: American entrepreneur
- Height: 1.65 m
- Parents: Kelly Wolf and Michael Wolf
- Siblings: unknown
- Spouse: Michael Herd (m. 2017)
- Children: Bobby and Henry Hurd
- Relationship: Married
- Net worth: $510 million
early life and education
Whitney Wolfe Herd is an American entrepreneur born in July 1989 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father is Catholic Kelly Wolfe and her mother is Michael Wolff, a wealthy real estate developer. It needs to be clarified if she has any siblings. Wolf Hurd attended Judge Memorial Catholic High School.
When she was in sixth grade, her family took a sabbatical in Paris, France. Wolf Hurd later attended Southern Methodist University, where he majored in international studies and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity. She is of mixed race, with a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, although she does not openly identify with a particular religion.
Profession
In 2012, at the age of 22, Wolfe Herd joined the startup Cardify, a project led by Sean Rad through the Hatch Labs IAC incubator. Although the project was eventually abandoned, the experience led her to join the development team of dating app Tinder (formerly MatchBox), along with Rad and Chris Gulczynski.
At Tinder, Wolfe Herd was promoted to vice president of marketing, where she is credited with coming up with the app’s name and flame logo, which increased its popularity on college campuses and expanded its its user base. However, tensions with other company executives led to her resignation in April 2014.
Undeterred, Wolfe Herd filed a lawsuit against Tinder for sexual harassment, reportedly receiving more than $1 million and stock as part of a September 2014 settlement. In December of that year, she founded Bumble, a dating app focused on women, and moved to Austin, Texas.
Bumble is growing rapidly, with more than 15 million conversations and more than 80 million matches as of December 2015. Wolfe Herd created the platform in partnership with Badoo founder Andrey Andreev, who remains the majority owner.
Wolfe Herd is widely recognized for his entrepreneurial success and leadership abilities. She was named one of Business Insider’s 30 Most Important Women Under 30 in Tech in 2014, Elle Magazine’s Women in Tech in 2016, and Forbes’ Top 30 in 2017 and 2018. Women under 30.
In 2019, Wolfe Herd further demonstrated her commitment to addressing the industry by testifying before the Texas House Criminal Law Committee regarding the unsolicited sending of explicit photos to female users on dating apps. Commitment to challenges faced by women.
In 2019, Bumble’s parent company MagicLab was sold to private equity firm The Blackstone Group. Wolfe Herd becomes CEO of the newly acquired company, which is valued at $3 billion and has an estimated 75 million users. She acquired about 19% of the company.
Most recently, in November 2023, Wolfe Herd announced that she would transition to executive chairman in January 2024, while Lidiane Jones would take over as Bumble CEO.
social media
- Instagram account: @whitney
personal life
Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of dating app Bumble, is married to oil and gas fortune heir Michael Herd. The couple first met in December 2013 during a ski trip to Aspen.
They later married in 2017 in Positano, Italy. Wolfe Herd and Herd have two sons – Bobby, born in 2019; Henry, born in 2022. The family resides in Austin, Texas.
net worth
Whitney Wolfe Herd is the CEO and significant shareholder of Bumble Inc., the developer of the popular dating app Bumble. According to Forbes, her net worth is estimated to be approximately $510 million as of 2023.
As a significant shareholder and CEO of Bumble Inc., Wolfe Herd’s substantial wealth can be attributed to the success and growth of the company she founded.
