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By Jane Wakefield
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You may never have heard of her - but the co-founder of dating app Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, has joined Forbes list of the super-rich.
And while others, such as fellow billionaire Kim Kardashian, are grabbing the headlines, there is an argument that the lesser known Wolfe Herd could serve as an equally strong role model.
The 31-year-old became the world s youngest self-made female billionaire when she took Bumble public in February.
She rang the Nasdaq bell with her 18-month-old baby son on her hip. In her speech she said she wanted to make the internet a kinder, more accountable place .
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Itâs been an extraordinary year by nearly every estimation â and despite the pandemic, billionairesâ wealth has continued to grow (up $5.1 trillion in total from 2020). There are the mainstays, Jeff Bezos sits at the top for the fourth consecutive year, then the second to sixth positions are tussled between by the regular fixtures of Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett (in that order).
But, further down the list, there are a wealth of newcomers to the three comma club â 63 women joining for the first time, a handful of self-made billionaires in their 20s and crypto magnates who have embraced the possibilities â and volatility â of crypto currencies and come out on top.