Bumble联合创始人兼首席执行官惠特尼·沃尔夫·赫德周二表示，鉴于公开市场对该公司的对待方式——其股价已跌至接近2美元——出售这家成立12年的约会应用对于“Bumble使命的长久延续”至关重要。
Bumble cofounder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said on Tuesday a sale of her 12-year-old dating app was important for the “for the longevity of Bumble’s mission” given the way the public markets had treated the company, whose stock had dropped to near $2.
赫德称，她会“抽离”不去关注股价，但在新科技投资公司Ithaca Holdings同意为期13亿美元的交易将公司私有化（该交易于本月早些时候宣布）后，她对Bumble的未来重燃乐观。
Herd said she would “disassociate” watching the stock price but was newly optimistic about Bumble’s future after new tech investment firm Ithaca Holdings agreed to take the company private in a $1.3 billion deal announced earlier this month.
“我感觉自己像被困在浪头下面整整五年，”她在The Information的WTF峰会上表示，这是Bumble同意出售以来她接受的首次采访。“但现在我已经上岸了。”
“I felt like I was stuck under a wave for like five years,” she said at The Information’s WTF Summit, in her first interview since Bumble agreed to a sale. “But now I’m on the beach.”