TIME.COM - Mar 19 - Whitney Wolfe Herd is annoyed at the way her story was being told. Her success at Bumble had cast her as the Kill Bill of the tech world: a yellow-clad woman seeking vengeance after men tried to bury her. "Honestly, my ambition comes from abusive relationships," she said. "I've never had this healthy male relationship until I created it. I engineered an ecosystem of healthy male relationships in my life." Bumble has engineered 8.6B connections among tens of millions of users in 237 countries since 2014. It employs 420 "brand ambassadors" across ~100 college campuses and is planning to open Bumble-themed coffee shops after the pandemic. A month after the IPO, it's valued at ~$14B, and last year it hauled in $582M in revenue with a 26% profit margin.
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