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Bumble Is Laying Off 30% of Its Staff: 'Our Path Forward Is Clear'

Sherin Shibu

created: June 25, 2025, 6:10 p.m. | updated: June 26, 2025, 7:46 p.m.

Dating app company Bumble is laying off 30% of staff, or nearly one in three employees. The layoffs arrive months after Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned to the company as CEO. "Bumble needs me back," Wolfe Herd said in an interview last month with The New York Times. Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. The report was disappointing: total revenue decreased 7.7% year-over-year to $247 million, with Bumble app revenue dropping 6.5% to $202 million, and Bumble app paying users decreasing 1% to 2.7 million users.

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