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Tinder's former marketing boss left the firm to start feminist rival Bumble in 2014. by Katy Mousinho and Giles Lury After her first experience, Whitney Wolfe Herd had no real plans to return to the world of online dating. At age 22, Wolfe Herd had joined Hatch Labs, and through them she became involved with a start-up called Cardify, which was a project led by Sean Rad. The project was abandoned, but through the connections she had made Wolfe Herd joined a dating app start-up with Rad and Chris Gulczynski.  That's how Wolfe Herd became vice president of marketing for Tinder. The name was he...

At the end of Thursday, February 11, 2021, Whitney Wolfe Herd, the co-founder and CEO of Bumble, closed at a net worth of $1.5 billion (Rs 10,915 crore). Per Forbes, her close to 12% stake in the company was worth a whopping $1.6 billion in no time at all. Bumble had their first IPO yesterday, and now Wolfe is the youngest self-made woman billionaire, thanks to a successful outing at the stock market for the dating app. Whitney Wolfe marked the successful IPO in an emotional post on her Instagram, which is a neat amalgamation of her personal and professional milestones and moments. According...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. OkCupid; Hinge; Match Group; Tinder; Plenty of Fish; Samantha Lee/Insider Match Group owns Tinder, OkCupid, and every other big online dating site in the US — except Bumble.  Bumble's CEO, an ex-Tinder executive, sued Match Group's parent company for discrimination in 2014. Here's how Match Group went from a failing dating site for Boomers to the country's largest online dating conglomerate.  Online dating can be messy. The companies that run online d...