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Tech entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd helped popularize Tinder as the dating app’s vice president of marketing.

In 2014, she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the startup, left the company, and founded a competitor called Bumble.

When Bumble became a public company in 2021, Wolfe Herd became the youngest female self-made billionaire at age 31.

The history of tech is littered with stories of founders who, after a schism with their company, swear up and down that they are going to rebound, to come back bigger and stronger with a brand new company that will give their former colleagues a run for their money. Most of those amount to nothing. Whitney Wolfe Herd actually did it.

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