Who is Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd?
Katrina Schollenberger
Updated: May 11 2021, 8:37 ET
Katrina Schollenberger
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WHITNEY Wolfe Herd is the founder of the dating app Bumble and one of the youngest female chief executives leading a public company.
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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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She also dated Tinder s chief marketing officer, Justin Mateen.
But in June 2014, Wolfe Herd sued the company for sexual harassment and discrimination, alleging that Mateen called her names, including whore and gold digger , and sent derogatory and threatening text messages.
While Mateen was suspended and then resigned from the company, Tinder CEO, Sean Rad, denied any wrongdoing and partly blamed Wolfe Herd for the incident. In a quiet settlement out of court, Wolfe Herd walked away with a reported $1 million.
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