Whitney Wolfe Herd

About

American entrepreneur and founder and CEO of publicly traded Bumble, Inc., the online dating platform launched in 2014. She has 30,000 followers on Twitter and 240,000 on Instagram.

Before Fame

She attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in international studies and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. While in college, she started a business selling bamboo tote bags to benefit areas affected by the BP oil spill. In 2012, she joined the startup Cardify, which was abandoned. She then joined the development team for the dating app Tinder.

Trivia

In February 2021, she became the world's youngest, female, self-made billionaire when she took Bumble public. She is the youngest woman to have taken a company public, at age 31.

Family Life

She was born Whitney Wolfe in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Kelly Wolfe, who was Catholic, and Michael Wolfe, a wealthy property developer, who was Jewish. In 2013, she met oil and gas heir Michael Herd on an Aspen skiing trip. They married in 2017 and in December 2019, they announced the birth of their first child.

Associated With

After she left Tinder in 2014, Andrey Andreev, founder of Badoo, contacted her about creating a dating platform and partnered with her on Bumble.