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Whitney Wolfe Herd tried to 'shut down' Swiped film

Whitney Wolfe Herd - the founder of the dating app Bumble - did not want her biopic, Swiped, to be made.

BANG Premier

‘Shut it down!’ — Bumble founder Wolfe Herd is terrified that there’s a new Hulu biopic about her life and wanted to block it two years ago

“I’m obviously both terrified and maybe slightly flattered,” Whitney Wolfe Herd said of “Swiped.”

Fortune

Swiped review – breezy drama gives dating apps the origins treatment

Lily James plays former Tinder employee who became founder of Bumble in an illuminating yet corny rise-to-fame tale

The Guardian - US

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Swiped review – Lily James leads a girlboss Social Network that is half film, half Bumble advert

2/5 This Disney+ biopic treats Whitney Wolfe Herd’s often harrowing experiences in the male-dominated tech industry with appropriate seriousness, but ultimately becomes a bland PR exercise

The Independent UK

Dating apps are banking on AI to win over Gen Z—but the sparks aren't flying, survey finds

Gen Z is the youngest generation to enter adulthood during the AI revolution, but they’re actually more uncomfortable with using AI for dating.

Fortune

Bumble cut 30% of its workforce—the magnitude of which JPMorgan says 'comes as a surprise'

The dating app company announced Wednesday it would lay off 30% of its workforce.

Fortune

Bumble hires Ivanka Trump's ex-chief of staff

Bumble's stock is down 57% over the past year.

Fortune

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Bottling your essence: Meghan Markle and the death of self-help speak

COMMENT: The Duchess of Sussex’s new podcast is so mired in motivational phrases that it’s very nearly incomprehensible. Katie Rosseinsky explores how self-help chatter got totally out of hand

The Independent UK

Meghan Markle Reveals "Scary" Post-Birth Health Battle in First Episode of New Podcast

"I mean life or death, truly."

Marie Claire

Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan review: welcome to girlboss 2.0

2/5 The girlboss isn’t dead, she’s rebranding as a female founder and she’s here to sell you her “essence”

Evening Standard

Confessions of a Female Founder review – Meghan’s sycophantic interview podcast is stomach-turning

The Duchess of Sussex fawns over entrepreneur guests and delivers overwrought messages to listeners, while claiming her lifestyle brand is ‘an extension of my essence’. It's a bit much

The Guardian - UK

Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd's 'ego death'

Bumble's founder is pivoting the app to focus on "self-love" before dating in her return as CEO.

Fortune

Bumble's new CEO is already leaving the company months after killing its signature feature

Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd will return as CEO.

Fortune

Bumble Founder Says AI Could Scan Potential Matches And Narrow It Down to 3 People For You

Bumble sees AI coaching daters and finding matches, but some fear it worsens loneliness and is like "Black Mirror."

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Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd shares her best business advice

The Bumble founder shares her company's origin story and business lessons as she becomes executive chair.

Fortune

Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down as CEO

Wolfe Herd will become Bumble's executive chair. Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will replace her as chief executive.

Fortune

Bumble undergoes a CEO shakeup as recession fears make singles forego pricey dating apps and the company's stock tanks 80% in 2 years

Dating apps face major headwinds as consumers cut back due to fears about the economy.

Fortune

Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down as Bumble CEO after a decade at the helm. She's planning the dating app’s next 10 years with new CEO Lidiane Jones

As Wolfe Herd's successor, Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, described it, this is a transition "from the youngest woman to take a company public to an immigrant that came here on a scholarship."

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Marie Claire

Meet Lidiane Jones, the Slack CEO Replacing Whitney Wolfe Herd at Bumble

The Slack CEO will replace Whitney Wolfe Herd at Bumble effective January 2 of next year.

Fortune

Whitney Wolfe Herd, who built Bumble into a $765 million company, is hiring someone else to run the app for the first time

Drena Kusari will become GM of the Bumble app, while Whitney Wolfe Herd "dreams big" as Bumble Inc. CEO.

The Conversation

Powerful women heading up dating apps are framed as young and sexy

People are swiping on dating apps in record numbers and roughly half of these individuals identify as women, which may be the reason why the dating app industry recently assigned the top leadership roles to women.

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