Bumble Founder: World’s Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire: Whitney Wolfe Herd

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Education, Society & Culture, Business

4.5 • 17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble and the first self-made female billionaire on the planet. In this episode, she reveals after leaving Tinder in explosive circumstances, the injustices she faced drove her on to build a better kind of dating app. A firm believer that the way to connect with people is by being authentic and being vulnerable, Whitney reveals she routinely shares with her staff her struggles with anxiety and when she’s not feeling on top of things. The only path to human connection lies through honesty, and Whitney breaks the mould to be as transparent with her employees as she can. In one of our rawest and most emotional conversations with CEOs yet, Whitney reveals that she wanted to be the boss not because she wanted to, but because she thought the nature of her character meant she couldn’t work for anybody else. Whitney: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3UUZR0P Twitter: http://bit.ly/3UWNstj Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	American Express I'm legally really not meant to comment on the Tinder Times. I don't even know if I've told this story.
0:36.9	But
0:39.6	Whitney Wolf heard the CEO and founder Bumble.
0:42.3	Whitney became one of the few women who can add billionaire to her title.
0:46.4	The dating app that puts women in charge of making the first move.
0:49.8	Making the first move can change your life.
0:52.4	But you have to do it.
0:53.6	No one can do it for you, which would then become Bumble's entire mantra.
0:58.0	I've seen all the things that Bumble have done over the years
1:00.4	and it's always seems to be original in its nature.
1:03.0	It was a lot of these tiny hacking concepts that made no sense.
1:07.0	No one had ever done these things before, but if you understand what moves and motivatesates people then you have this opportunity to connect with them and so that's been the superpower of ours over the years
1:18.6	As 31 years old you're the youngest woman to take a company public.
1:23.0	What's the personal toll on you in those moments?
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