In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd with Slack CEO Lidiane Jones.
Jones only started as CEO at Slack last year, replacing another founder CEO, Stewart Butterfield. Jones, whose background includes various roles at Salesforce, Microsoft and Sonos, will be starting at the first of the year.
Wolfe Herd, who will be moving to the executive chair role, spoke effusively of Jones and her ability to lead Bumble. “Lidiane’s expertise and track record in product and technology is exceptional and having her leading the next chapter of Bumble Inc. is a major win for our company, customers and team,” she said in a statement.
While Bumble now has a clear line of succession, it leaves Slack in a bit of pickle. Salesforce paid almost $28 billion for the company at the end of 2020. Two years later, Butterfield announced he was stepping down, and that Jones would be his replacement.


