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Former employees said Wolfe Herd’s return signals a shift to ‘Founder Mode’ at Bumble
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Former Bumble employees said CEO Wolf Herd came back changed, The Observer reported.
“She seemed to have a very different attitude. It was much more ‘I am who I am and I don’t care if you don’t like me’,” said a former staffer. “I think she must have had some kind of personal epiphany.”
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One person closed to her said her new friendship with Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb seemed to have influenced her new attitude.
“What I saw in there was coaching from Brian to be like, ‘No, Whitney, this is your company. Go ‘founder mode’ and take care of it’,” the source said.
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During her time away, Chesky gave a viral interview in which he described a new leadership style called “founder mode” that involves the founder getting deeply involved in the weeds of the business when the company is faltering.