Wolfe Herd’s software has expanded beyond dating, with features female that is promoting and job . [+] networking.
Some users of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd’s dating app, are fortunate enough to swipe right and discover love, a unique buddy or even a task possibility. Wolfe Herd, though, will be the luckiest of most: The app, which Forbes values at $1 billion, has taken its 29-year-old founder a $230 million fortune. While Wolfe Herd missed the cut with this year’s Forbes range of America’s Richest Self-Made ladies, Forbes predicts it won’t be too much time it has before she joins the ranks, assuming Bumble keeps growing at the rate.
Bumble’s biggest competitor is Tinder, established in 2012 among the very very first “swiping” dating apps,using an individual’s location to locate matches. Wolfe Herd really aided now build what is her adversary. She cofounded Tinder, but left the business in 2014, claiming harassment that is sexual her cofounder and ex-boyfriend Justin Mateen.