Austin-based dating app Bumble is branching off to focus on finding friends.
Whitney Wolfe Herd has run the company for nearly a decade. She started her career as a co-founder of Tinder before she left that company in 2014 to found Bumble with the goal of creating an empowering online dating space for women.
"Under Wolfe Herd’s leadership, Bumble has become one of the world’s leading networking apps, enabling members to connect with confidence whether dating, networking or meeting friends online," Bumble Inc. said in a press release."Bumble Inc. has also become known as a global brand that champions women’s safety online.", when Wolfe Herd took Bumble public, she became both a billionaire and the youngest woman to take a company public in the U.S., at age 31.
According to Bumble, Wolfe Herd will be succeed by Jones on Jan. 2, 2024. Jones will remain at Slack until the end of the year.
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