Forbes

21. WHITNEY WOLFE HERD

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$1.3 billion  SOURCE: Dating app AGE: 32 • RESIDENCE: Austin, TX SELF-MADE SCORE:  The founder of dating app Bumble became, at age 31, the world’s youngest selfmade female billionair­e in February after taking the women-focused app public. She founded Bumble in 2014 with financing from Russian billionair­e Andrey Andreev, who launched Europe-based dating site Badoo in 2006. Andreev sold his Bumble stake to Blackstone Group in 2019 after a Forbes investigat­ion revealed a toxic workplace at Badoo (which Andreev denied).

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