ABOUT THE BUMBLE APP Make the First Move. Bumble is a connections app built by women, for everyone. Founded in 2014 by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, the goal was to challenge and change the rules of dating. To flip traditional gender norms, women have to make the first move. Today, people use Bumble to connect with confidence in love, life, and work. 曾任Tinder联合创始人及营销副总裁，后因性骚扰诉讼离职并创立Bumble。 2021年2月带领Bumble在纳斯达克上市，创女性CEO领导企业最高估值，成为美国最年轻的上市公司女性CEO。 截至2020年9月，Bumble覆盖150个国家。 2023年11月辞去CEO职务，转任执行主席，前SlackCEO接任。 Whitney Wolfe Herd is cofounder of Bumble, which operates online dating apps Bumble and Badoo. In March 2025 she became CEO again, after stepping down in early 2024. When I founded Bumble, it was because I saw a problem I wanted to help solve. It was 2014, but so many of the smart, wonderful women in my life were still waiting around for men to ask them out, to take their numbers, or to start up a conversation on a dating app. Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble app and our Chief Executive Officer, and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2020. From January 2024 to March 2025, she served as our Executive Chair. Whitney Wolfe Herd (born July 1, 1989) [1] is an American entrepreneur most notable as the founder, executive chair, and CEO of Bumble. [2] She is a co-founder of Tinder and was previously its Vice President of Marketing. [3][4] Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble app and our Chief Executive Officer, and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2020. From January 2024 to March 2025, she served as our Executive Chair. In 2014, Whitney Wolfe Herd founded Bumble shortly after leaving Tinder, where she was a co-founder and VP of Marketing. Badoo co-founder and CEO Andrey Andreev encouraged her to start a new dating app and brought her on as a partner in MagicLab. A year after assuming the role and initiating a slew of controversial changes, Lidiane Jones is out as CEO of Bumble Inc., the company announced Friday. Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down as chief executive after nearly a decade running the dating app company.