{"id":6795,"date":"2021-02-21T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/bumble-founder-becomes-worlds-youngest-self-made-woman-billionaire-thanks-to-ipo\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:02:24","slug":"bumble-founder-becomes-worlds-youngest-self-made-woman-billionaire-thanks-to-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/bumble-founder-becomes-worlds-youngest-self-made-woman-billionaire-thanks-to-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumble Founder Becomes World\u2019s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire Thanks To IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitney Wolfe Herd. Getty Images for Fast Company [Update 7 pm ET:\u00a0Whitney Wolfe Herd ended the day Thursday with a net worth of $1.5 billion based on Bumble stock closing at $70.55.] Shares of dating app Bumble soared in its IPO on Thursday, turning its 31-year-old CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd into the world\u2019s youngest self-made woman billionaire. Her nearly 12% stake in the company was worth $1.6 billion as of 12:40 p.m. EST on Thursday.\u00a0 Bumble stock opened at $76, much higher than its initial IPO price of $43 per share. The company made its debut hours after the markets opened on Thursday. 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Getty Images for Fast Company [Update 7 pm ET:\u00a0Whitney Wolfe Herd ended the day Thursday with a net worth of $1.5 billion based on Bumble stock closing at $70.55.] Shares of dating app Bumble soared in its IPO on Thursday, turning its 31-year-old CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd into the world\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":6796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bumble Founder Becomes World\u2019s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire Thanks To IPO - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/bumble-founder-becomes-worlds-youngest-self-made-woman-billionaire-thanks-to-ipo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bumble Founder Becomes World\u2019s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire Thanks To IPO - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whitney Wolfe Herd. 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