As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe helms one of the fastestgrowing social networks in the world. In less than 3 years, her strategic vision has led to Bumble’s growth of nearly 20 million users worldwide and has singlehandedly disrupted the way people connect online and off.
Wolfe’s mission for Bumble was simple: create a female-first platform grounded in positive behavior, which would strive to fix the broken system surrounding antiquated gender norms when it comes to connecting. Too much of the online ecosystem had become infected with abuse and bullying, and Wolfe was driven to create something different, something healthy and something committed to fostering meaningful connections between individuals. Despite the many skeptics, Wolfe debuted Bumble in 2014 as the only dating platform where women had to make the first move. Adoption of Bumble was explosive and in addition to a rapidly growing user base, the company recently celebrated the 100,000,000th first move made by a woman.
As the company has grown, Wolfe has executed upon her vision of making Bumble “the Facebook for people you don’t know.” In April 2016, Bumble launched BumbleBFF as a friend-finding feature and will go live with BumbleBIZZ October 1, 2017, which will connect users around professional interests.
Prior to Bumble, Wolfe was a co-founder of Tinder, serving as the company’s VP of marketing from 2012-2014. Leading up to her time with Tinder, Wolfe was the first marketing and sales hire on the Cardify team under the IAC Incubator at Hatch Labs, which was ultimately parlayed into the launch of Tinder.
A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Wolfe currently resides in Austin, Texas with her husband and three enormous dogs. When not running Bumble, Wolfe enjoys investing in female founded, cause-driven startups and mentoring the next wave of founders and tech executives.
