In the nine years since she founded the dating app Bumble at the age of 24, Whitney Wolfe Herd has led several versions of the company. First, she was a hyper-visible founder backed by a quiet majority shareholder. Then, in 2019 she bought him out with the help of Blackstone and became the CEO of a new parent company. In 2021, Wolfe Herd became the youngest woman to take a company public.
Today, she’s stepping into a new chapter at Bumble once again. Wolfe Herd will step down as CEO of $904-million-in-revenue Bumble Inc. and become the business’s executive chair. Her successor in running the parent of the flagship app Bumble, its friend-finding platform Bumble BFF, and the apps Badoo, Fruitz, and Official, is Lidiane Jones, a Salesforce exec who became the CEO of Slack at the beginning of this year.
