Whitney Wolfe Herd
American businesswoman
Whitney Wolfe Herd (born July 1, 1989) is an American entrepreneur most notable as the founder, executive chair, and CEO of Bumble. She is a co-founder of Tinder and was previously its Vice President of Marketing.
Wolfe became the world's youngest female billionaire when she took Bumble public in 2021; she was also the youngest woman to take a company public in the United States, at age 31.
Early life and education
Whitney Wolfe was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Kelly and Michael Wolfe.
Wolfe attended Judge Memorial Catholic High School. For college, she attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in international studies and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
While in college at the age of 20, she partnered with celebrity stylist Patrick Aufdenkamp to launch a non-profit organization, the Help Us Project, which sold bamboo tote bags to benefit areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The bags received national attention after celebrities, including Rachel Zoe and Nicole Richie, were photographed with them. Soon after, she launched a second venture with Aufdenkamp — a clothing line named Tender Heart.
After graduating, Wolfe Herd worked with orphanages in Southeast Asia.
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