With his own labor and effort the world’s youngest female billionaire Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of the dating applications Tinder and Bumble, and is someone who has already achieved many successes despite being only 34 years old.

Born in America in 1989, Wolfe Herd grew up in a very conservative environment as the daughter of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father. In the dating world because of the environment he grew up in Men are always expected to make the first move It had already caught his attention at the time and perhaps he had taken the first steps towards the basic philosophy of Bumble, which he would later implement.

Wolfe Herd’s entrepreneurial spirit, which did not stand still during his university years, would open a door for him that he could never have imagined.

When Wolfe Herd went to Texas to attend college, so was he of the BP oil spill launched an initiative aimed at selling cloth bags to provide relief to those affected.

Wolfe Herd, who later worked in various jobs and was only 22 years old, joined a technology startup called Cardify in 2012. The project did not go as expected and was shelved, but Wolfe Herd met Sean Rad, Justin Mateen and Chris Gulczynski and started the dating app. He joined Tinder’s development team.

Wolfe Herd, the person who gave Tinder its name, after a while became vice president of marketing for the application!

Things were going pretty well for the Tinder team. The application’s right and left swipe function even became available later. foundation of modern dating app culture would create.

But later he was in a relationship with Justin Mateen that lasted for about a year. having an affair Things were about to get a little complicated and unpleasant for Whitney Wolfe Herd.

Wolfe Herd’s sudden departure from Tinder in 2014 would lay the foundation for Bumble.

After her relationship with Justin Mateen ended, she suddenly left the company and moved to Justin Mateen. case of sexual harassment Wolfe Herd won the lawsuit and received Tinder shares worth more than $1 million in compensation.

Even though Wolfe Herd had a bad experience, he wouldn’t allow his name to be erased from this market.

Although she initially planned to create a social network for women, she later became the founder of Badoo. Andrei Andreev Wolfe Herd, who decided to stay in the dating app industry at his suggestion, developed an app in collaboration with Andeev with a completely different perspective than other dating apps: Bumble!

The difference with Bumbe, which over time became Tinder’s biggest rival, was that the process was controlled by women.

Reflecting the vision of Wolfe Herd and a feminist dating app In this application, which was introduced because women had to send the first message in a match and both parties had 24 hours for the first message.

The reason for this is to prevent ‘inappropriate’ messages that women often receive Creating a friendlier environment for women says Wolfe Herd.

Of course, Bumble’s growth also disrupted Tinder.

Match.com, which falls under Tinder’s umbrella company IAC, wanted to acquire Bumble, which grew rapidly after its founding, and initially offered $450 million, but after the first offer was rejected, it made this offer. He increased it to $1 billion. Wolfe Herd, who did not take a step back, also declined this offer.

In the future, Match.com will acquire Bumble because it imitates Tinder He sued, but both cases were dismissed after Wolfe Herd filed a countersuit.

Bumble’s campaign didn’t end there. In 2019, the lawsuit against Andreev escalated things for Bumble.

This incident resulted in Wolfe Herd purchasing Andreev’s shares after it was decided that Andreev, who had been indicted on charges including tax evasion, sexism and racism, would negatively impact Bumble’s image. Wolfe Herd eventually became CEO of his own company.

In 2021, with the IPO of Bumble, Wolfe Herd will become the world’s youngest female billionaire!

Net worth after IPO $1.5 billion Wolfe Herd becomes the youngest female billionaire in the world.

As a result, Wolfe was quite resilient to the various challenges Herd encountered. take a strong stand We see him persevere.

Wolfe Herd, despite great difficulties He achieved great success at a young age. By succeeding in becoming a female entrepreneur, she proves to us once again how important it is not to give up and not to give up on our dreams.