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Meet Whitney Wolfe Herd, the 31-year-old CEO of the female-led dating app Bumble that’s about to file for a $6 billion IPO
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Getty/Vivien Killilea Once a victim of online harassment, Whitney Wolfe Herd is working to make the internet a kinder place for women with female-led dating app Bumble. Before Bumble, Wolfe Herd cofounded rival dating app Tinder, but left the company two years later and filed […]
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