Kathryn Minshew | |
|---|---|
 Minshew in 2014 | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur author writer public speaker |
| Alma mater | Duke University Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology [1] |
| Website | |
| themuse | |
Kathryn Minshew is an American entrepreneur, the CEO and co-founder of The Muse, a career-development platform. [2]
Minshew was a management consultant at McKinsey. [3] She worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative until 2010, when she co-founded Pretty Young Professionals. [4] A disagreement with the cofounders of the company led to the dissolution of the Pretty Young Professionals. [5]
In 2011, Minshew co-founded The Muse (originally called The Daily Muse) [2] with Alexandra Cavoulacos and Melissa McCreery. Minshew is the CEO of The Muse and Cavoulacos is the COO. [6] The Muse was accepted into tech accelerator YCombinator for the Winter 2012 class. [7] Kathryn Minshew admitted she was rejected 148 times when pitching investors for seed money. [8]
Minshew represented The Daily Muse in the Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year competition in Fall 2013, where she made the finals. [9] Minshew has contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review , Fast Company , and Inc. . [10] [11] [12]
In January 2020, she launched the podcast The New Rules of Work. [13]
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