THE NEXT WAVE
The entrepreneurs redefining technology, business models—and what it means to be a woman founder
WHITNEY WOLFE BUMBLE
AUSTIN → SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY
After co-founding Tinder, departing acrimoniously, and filing a gender discrimination lawsuit against it, the last thing Wolfe was expected to do was another dating app. “But I realized I could take all the negativity and use it as a force to inspire something good,” says Wolfe, who’s building a mini-empire of feminist tech businesses: Bumble, a women-centric dating app, has some 20 million users; this fall, Wolfe debuted BumbleBizz, a networking platform for women.
AMY JAIN & DANIELLA
