Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less.
O'Connor, Clare. "Billion-Dollar Bumble: How Whitney Wolfe Herd Built America's Fastest-Growing Dating App." Forbes, Forbes Media, 14 Nov. 2017.
In 1869 the all male legislature of Wyoming at the urging of legislator Col. William Bright passed legislation allowing women not only to vote but to hold public office. A local Justice of the Peace was so outraged that he resigned in protest. Then Esther Morris ran for the vacated position and won becoming the first woman to hold public office. See {585019} & {585018}
Whitney Wolfe Herd is an American entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Bumble, a social and dating app, launched in 2014. She was also an early executive at Tinder. Wolfe Herd was named as one of 2017's and 2018's Forbes 30 Under 30, and in 2018 she was named in the Time 100 List. In 2021, Herd became the world's youngest female self-made billionaire. She also became the youngest woman to take a company public, at age 31.
