Whitney Wolfe Herd stepping down as CEO of Bumble

AUSTIN (Austin Business Journal) -- Bumble Inc. co-founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down almost a decade after starting the Austin-based dating app company.Herd will officially step down as CEO on Jan. 2, and she will be succeeded by Lidiane Jones, who is currently CEO at workforce communications company Slack, according to a Nov. 6 announcement. Herd will remain at Bumble as executive chair.Herd founded Bumble in 2014 after being a co-founder and vice president of marketing at Tin