Kathryn Minshew

Minshew was a management consultant at McKinsey.[2] She worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative until 2010, when she co-founded Pretty Young Professionals,[3] a networking site for young professional women.[4]

In 2011, Minshew co-founded The Muse (originally called The Daily Muse),[1] a "career platform and job discovery tool serving more than 5 million professionals worldwide,"[5] with Alexandra Cavoulacos and Melissa McCreery. Minshew is the CEO of The Muse and Cavoulacos is the COO.[6] The Muse has raised $28.7 million in total funding from 22 Investors.[7] The Muse was accepted into tech accelerator YCombinator for the Winter 2012 class.[8]

She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media list in 2011[9] and 2012.[10] Minshew and her co-founders were also on the Inc. 2012 list of 15 Women to Watch in Tech.[11] She has been featured in publications including Wired,[12] Forbes,[13] Inc.,[14] Huffington Post,[15] Teen Vogue,[16] and Stylecaster.[17]

Minshew represented The Daily Muse in the Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year competition in Fall 2013, where she made the finals.[18]

In 2016, Minshew was named a New York Future 50 Award winner by SmartCEO magazine[19] and a Workforce Magazine 2016 Game Changer.[20] Minshew was also an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2016.[21] Minshew and her co-founder were named to the Silicon Alley 100 in 2012[22] and 2015.[23]

Minshew was also featured in the "Global Citizen" campaign by Tumi in 2014[24] and the "Women of Substance" campaign by Anthropologie[25] in 2015.

In 2019, Minshew was named as one of the winners of the inaugural One Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Award.[26]

Minshew has contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Inc..[27][28][29] She has been featured as a career expert on programs including The Today Show, Bloomberg Television, FOX, MSNBC.[30][31][32][33] In addition, Minshew is a frequent speaker at Technology, Media and Human Capital events, in 2016 appearing at the Tribeca Film Festival: Tribeca Talks Daring Women Summit, The Next Web Europe, Y Combinator's Female Founders Conference, Employer Branding Strategies Conference, NCHRA's Recruiting & Selection Conference and numerous others.[34][35][36][37][38]

For Anthropologie's Women of Character feature, Minshew shared some of her values and inspirations. These included:

My favourite virtue would have to be courage. I'm always so impressed and amazed with people [who] can stand up for what they believe, and can go against the grain.[39]

My heroes, in real life, tend to be people who either broke through barriers or overcame tremendous obstacles – not only individually, but people who opened up pathways.[39]

2017: The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career (co-authored with Alexandra Cavoulacos), Crown Business, 336 pages. ISBN 9780451495679

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