Meet Whitney Wolfe Herd, the CEO of dating app Bumble

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Meet Whitney Wolfe Herd, the CEO of the female-led dating app Bumble

. She left the company shortly after they split, and filed a lawsuit alleging that she had experienced sexual harassment and discrimination.

The legal dispute was settled privately outside of court, with neither party admitting to wrongdoing."I was inundated with hatred online, lots of aggressive behavior, people calling me names, really painful things that I'd never experienced," Wolfe Herd toldin 2018."I felt like my entire self-worth, any confidence that I had, had been sucked away. There were dark times when I thought, 'Well, this is it. I won't have a career ever again.

Wolfe Herd launched Bumble in 2014, originally planning to build a female-focused social network instead of a dating app.

Wolfe Herd has since expanded the app with additional services to help women meet new friends and expand their professional networks, called

 

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