{"id":668421,"date":"2025-05-11T08:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whitney-wolfe-herd-on-burning-out-and-bouncing-back\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:18:44","slug":"whitney-wolfe-herd-on-burning-out-and-bouncing-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whitney-wolfe-herd-on-burning-out-and-bouncing-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Wolfe Herd on burning out — and bouncing back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whitney Wolfe Herd returned in March to lead Bumble, the dating app<\/a> she founded and took public, following the unexpected departure<\/a> of CEO Lidiane Jones. Now, in a New York Times interview<\/a>, Wolfe Herd opens up about what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no intentions of coming back,\u201d Wolfe Herd says. Her post-Bumble life initially brought existential questions about her identity, eventually giving way to daily meditation and board calls from the sidelines. That changed when Jones reached out to confess she was overwhelmed. Shortly after that conversation, Jones resigned.<\/p>\n

Wolfe Herd dismisses speculation of conflict between them. \u201cI think the world wants people \u2013\u00a0 particularly when it\u2019s a woman to a woman \u2013\u00a0 they want there to be some riff. There\u2019s no riff,\u201d she emphasizes.<\/p>\n

Wolfe Herd recognized her own burnout reflected in Jones\u2019s exhaustion. \u201cI felt like I was looking in a mirror. I felt like I was looking at myself a year prior\u2026 [Jones] herself had made some of the same mistakes I had made, which was working that extra hour, putting in that extra trip<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herd, who announced Friday on Instagram<\/a> that she\u2019s expecting her third child, addresses the company\u2019s struggles in her Times interview. With Bumble this week reporting first-quarter earnings that fell 7.7% year-over-year<\/a>, she say that, \u201cBumble needs me back. It\u2019s an extension of me to some degree, and watching it fall from its peak has been very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n