Company · Technology · founded 2014
Bumble
American mobile app for online dating and social networking, launched in December 2014 and founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd. It is operated by Bumble Inc., which also owns Badoo.
Of the 1 person here linked to Bumble, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Bumble
Founder Still there
Role
Founder and CEO; executive chair from January 2024; returned as CEO in March 2025, 2014–now
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia says Bumble launched in December 2014 and that she announced in November 2023 she would become executive chair in January 2024, with Lidiane Jones as CEO, then returned as CEO in mid-March 2025. Fortune (January 17, 2025) confirms she stepped down as CEO in late 2023 and would return starting mid-March (the year is inferred from the article date).
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder and CEO, Bumble Inc.
affluent · some · college degree