Whitney Wolfe Herd returned in March to direct Bumble, the dating application she founded and criticized in public, after the unexpected departure of the CEO Lidiane Jones. Now, in an interview with the New York Times, Wolfe Herd opens with what happened.
“I had no intention of coming back,” said Wolfe Herd. His post-buzzing life initially brought existential questions about his identity, ultimately giving way to daily meditation and calls for the sidelines. This changed when Jones stretched out to admit that she was overwhelmed. Shortly after this conversation, Jones resigned.
Wolfe Herd rejects the speculation of the conflict between them. “I think the world wants people – especially when she is a woman for a woman – they want there to be a riff. There is no riff, ”she underlines.
Wolfe Herd recognized his own professional exhaustion reflected in the exhaustion of Jones. “I felt like I was looking in a mirror. I felt like I looked at myself a year ago … (Jones) had made some of the same mistakes I had made, which worked for this additional hour, making this additional trip. “
Herd, who announced on Friday on Instagram that she is expecting her third child, is aimed at the difficulties of the company in her interview in Times. With Bumble this week publishing profits from the first quarter that fell 7.7% from one year to the next, she says that “Bumble needs me. It is an extension of me to a certain extent, and looking at him falling from his peak was very difficult. ”
