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Founder & CEO · Bumble
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Built a dating app around one rule: women make the first move.
- Founded
- 2014
- HQ
- Austin, TX
- Sector
- Consumer
- Company
- Bumble
The story in brief
A Tinder co-founder, Wolfe Herd launched Bumble in 2014 with backing from Badoo founder Andrey Andreev.
Bumble's 2021 IPO made her the youngest woman to take a U.S. company public at the time.
Read the full story · 5 min readWomen Make the First Move: Whitney Wolfe Herd and the Making of Bumble→Lessons for founders
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A clear rule can be a brand
02
Build from lived experience
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Founders can come back
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