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Who is Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd?
WHITNEY Wolfe Herd is the founder of the dating app Bumble and one of the youngest female chief executives leading a public company.
She is married to .
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Who is Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd?
Wolfe Herd was born and raised in Salt Lake City.
Fluent in French, she majored in International Studies at SMU and spent a year abroad studying at Sorbonne University in Paris.
At the age of 20, she started a business selling bamboo tote bags to raise funds for areas affected by the BP oil spill in 2010.
The non-profit, launched with celebrity stylist Patrick Aufdenkamp, was called "Help Us Project" and Nicole Richie and Rachel Zoe were pictured wearing the bags.
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Wolfe Herd launched a second business with Aufdenkamp called "Second Heart" - a clothing line raising awareness of human trafficking.
After travelling to Southeast Asia to work in orphanages, Wolfe Herd joined the development team for dating app Tinder.
She was named vice president of marketing for the company.
Wolfe Herd later sued the company, alleging that her co-founders subjected her to sexual harassment.
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Tinder parent Match Group Inc, which denied the allegations, paid about $1 million to settle the dispute.
She moved to Austin, Texas and founded Bumble - a female-focused dating app.
Wolfe Herd was named one of Business Insider's 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech in 2014 and one of Elle's Women in Tech in 2016.
She was also named in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 and 2018.
Wolfe Herd in Forbes' top 100 "America's richest self-made women" in 2020.
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How did Herd meet her husband?
Herd has been married to Michael Herd since 2017.
The couple met four years earlier in Aspen when both were on vacation.
Michael was having a long lunch at the time, according to .
“I sat down next to him and was giving him a hard time about wasting such amazing conditions,” Whitney told the magazine in 2017.
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“Michael admitted he didn’t know how to ski, and being from Utah and having grown up skiing, I was perplexed as to why someone who couldn’t ski would be on a ski vacation.”
He would suggest that Whitney teach him how to ski.
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“I was up for the challenge and excited to slyly show off my skills,” Whitney told Vogue.
“So up the gondola we went. I spent every minute of that long ride boasting about my expertise.
"He said that he was nervous and suggested that I go slow so he could keep up.
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"When we got off, he picked up my skis and got me clicked in. I thought, Hmm, that’s weird, that’s kind of a pro move, but then quickly started down the hill.
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"I went as fast as I could and thought he was long behind me.
"Next thing I know, he passes me backward. When we got to the bottom, he clicked off my skis, handed them over, and said, ‘Y’all have a good day!’ My life has never been the same since!”
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