Kathryn Minshew

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kathryn Minshew

• Does Kathryn Minshew smoke?: Not known

• Does Kathryn Minshew drink alcohol?: Yes 

• She worked as a management consultant at McKinsey.

• She worked on vaccine introduction in Rwanda and Malawi with the Clinton Health Access Initiative till 2010.

• She co-founded Pretty Young Professionals, a networking site for young professional women.

• She co-founded “The Muse” (previously called The Daily Muse) with Alexandra Cavoulacos and Melissa McCreery in 2011. It is a career and job hunting platform helping over 5 million professionals worldwide and helps over 700 companies to hire talent and grow their employer brand.

• She started with less than $3,000 and a small team of writers and editors, “The Muse” now has over one million monthly users.

• Despite the hurdles she faced while making her company in this male-dominated society, she has grown her company into a professional-development empire that has raised $28 million in funding and draws over 50 million users each year.

• She travels a lot. She told in an interview that, “I’m an adventurous traveler — 60 countries and counting”.

• She is the author of the book “The New Rules of Work,” which was published by Crown Business / Penguin Random House in April 2017 and it became a Wall Street Journal National Bestseller. 

• She has also spoken at MIT and Harvard, appeared on The “TODAY” Show and CNN, and contributes on career and entrepreneurship to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review.

• She has been featured in publications including Wired, Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, and Stylecaster.

•  She has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media and Inc.’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech in 2011 and 2012.