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Whitney Wolfe Herd to speak at Commencement

Postby AfricanMustang » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:50 am

DALLAS (SMU) – Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble Inc., became the youngest woman to take a company public when she celebrated the initial offering of her dating app shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market in February. The 31-year-old entrepreneur and SMU alumna will draw lessons from her remarkable life story as the featured speaker at SMU’s May Commencement Convocation on Saturday, May 15.

The outdoor ceremony, scheduled for 8 a.m. in Ford Stadium, will be streamed live at https://www.smu.edu/live.

“Whitney Wolfe Herd may be the youngest commencement speaker we have ever had,” said SMU President R. Gerald Turner. “Our graduates will feel a sense of kinship with her as it has been only ten years since she walked across the stage in cap and gown. She began experimenting with entrepreneurism while at SMU, and went on to transform a big idea into something that helps people connect in new ways.”

Her signature company was born of her determination to reinvent the internet for women: On the Bumble app, women must send the first message to men they are interested in within the first 24 hours of matching. As she told SMU Magazine in 2018, “When you think about it, women are making the first move, which is empowering,” Wolfe Herd says. “We tolerate zero abusive behavior, so that kindness piece is there, too.”

Her strategic vision has guided the company’s growth to tens of millions of users in over150 countries and changed the way people connect online and off.

Wolfe Herd has been included twice in the Forbes’ 30 under 30 issue, was named to the TIME 100 most influential people list in 2018, and Business Insider’s 30 Most Important Women Under 30 in Tech. She serves on the board of Imagine Entertainment, the film and television production company founded by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.

At SMU, she serves on the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences Executive Board and was the recipient of SMU’s Emerging Leader Award in 2019.

https://www.smu.edu/News/2021/Featured- ... mmencement
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Re: Whitney Wolfe Herd to speak at Commencement

Postby DanFreibergerForHeisman » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:44 am

How exciting!! It should be a memorable graduation ceremony for our new alums.
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