If I want to spray champagne, I’ll spray champagne if I want to volunteer, I’ll volunteer. I just don’t care what people think about me. Speaking about how her experience from 2014 shaped her setting up her own company, Herd said in an interview to Vogue, “What I went through in 2014 made me immune. They all have a voice, they all want friendship, respect, opportunity and the ability to be themselves, it’s not nuanced differently in India and America.” In an interview at the time, Herd said, “We’ve learnt that women are quite similar across the globe.
The location based-mobile application made its Asia debut in India in 2018.
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Not just an app for dating, Bumble also is a platform for platonic friendships and professional communication under the verticals Bumble BFF and Bumble Bizz, respectively.
Known across the world as a “feminist dating app”, what sets Bumble aside from other dating portals and apps is that for heterosexual matches a conversation only starts on the women’s initiative.Īs of 2020, the app had more than 100 million users in 150 countries including India. Tinder denied any wrongdoing and the case was confidentially settled.Īlso read: How a college dropout undercut China’s app titans to become a billionaire She also accused Tinder of stripping her of the title of ‘co-founder’, as having a 24-year old “girl” co-founder “makes the company seem like a joke”. She left Tinder after filing a lawsuit and accusing her then boyfriend and former boss Justin Mateen of verbally harassing her and abusing, and threatening her job. Before that, she was the vice-president of marketing at rival-dating site Tinder. To everyone who made today possible: Thank you. This is only possible thanks to the more than 1.7 billion first moves made by brave women on our app - and the pioneering women who paved the way for us in the business world. Herd is also the youngest female CEO to take a company public in the US.Īs Bumble debuted its IPO Thursday at $43 - actor Priyanka Chopra is an investor and US tennis star Serena Williams markets the app - Herd took to Twitter, saying, “Today is what happens when women make the first move. She is now the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire.
New Delhi : Online dating app Bumble Inc.’s shares have soared over 70 per cent to more than $70 on trading debut in New York, valuing the women-led company’s chief executive Whitney Wolfe Herd’s nearly 12 per cent stake at over $1.5 billion.