Youll be surprised by what the superstar founder of Bumble says about mentors

You'll be surprised by what the superstar founder of Bumble says about mentors You'll be surprised by what the superstar founder of Bumble says about mentors Whitney Wolfe Herd is the 29-year-old founder of the wildly popular four-year-old dating site Bumble, where women make the first move. Today, the company is valued at $1 billion.She recently scored a profile in Vogue, who followed her as she went to India to launch Bumble on the subcontinent.Follow Ladders on Flipboard!Follow Ladders’ magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more!But when asked by the magazine who her female mentors were, she said there hadn’t been many in her career:“If we’re going to be a part of making men treat women better, why don’t we start treating each other better?” It’s clear that Wolfe Herd feels that she has been let down by her own gender in the past. Asked to name her female mentors, she becomes quiet and says there haven’t been many. Of course, Wolfe Herd herself is becoming a mentor to the women who work for her (Bumble has 140 employees, 85 percent of whom are women), and she is qui ck to celebrate and support her female peers. When her friend the Glossier founder, Emily Weiss, made the cover of Entrepreneur, Wolfe Herd had cookies made of the cover image and sent to her office.”In a way, it makes sense. With a shortage of women in tech, especially at the founder and CEO level, one would assume there to be fewer appropriate female mentors for someone in Wolf Herd’s unique position.You might also enjoy… New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy Strangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds 10 lessons from Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule that will double your productivity The worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs 10 habits of mentally strong people