Profile
Founder and CEO of Bumble
Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and chief executive of Bumble, the Austin-based dating app she launched in 2014. She was earlier a co-founder of Tinder and its vice president of marketing.
She took Bumble public on Nasdaq in February 2021, at 31 the youngest woman to take a US company public. In October 2026 Bumble agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3 billion; she is to stay involved after Ithaca's co-CEOs take over.
Business
Whitney Wolfe Herd took Bumble public at 31. Five years later the dating app is going private for $6.05 a share, and two outsiders will run it.