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Whitney Wolfe Herd

: Bumble Revenue: US $ 1.1bn Employees: 800 Founded: 2014

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Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder and CEO of Bumble and Co-Founder of Tinder

Whitney Wolfe Herd built a dating app where women message first and turned a safety feature into a US $ 1bn-revenue business, becoming the youngest self-made female billionaire when Bumble floated in 2021. She stepped back, watched the app economy get uglier and returned as CEO in 2025 to refight the original battle: kinder connection at scale. Bumble’ s lobbying helped criminalise cyberflashing in several US states, proof that product design can be social policy.