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Whitney Wolfe Herd Rewrote the Rules — Then Rang the Bell With a Baby on Her Hip

“She took the part of the tech industry that tried to push her out and built a company around handing women the first word.”

In February 2021, at 31, Wolfe Herd became the youngest woman to take a company public in the United States. The image of her ringing the Nasdaq bell with her infant son became an emblem for working mothers in tech.