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Jan 2021
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Kathryn Minshew - Founder & CEO, The Mus...

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Kathryn Minshew is the founder and CEO of The Muse, a career platform used by over 75 million people to research companies and careers. In 2018, The Muse was named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World and #3 Most Innovative Company for Enterprise.

Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, contributed to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and appeared on TODAY and CNN, among others. Kathryn worked on HPV vaccine introduction in Rwanda with the Clinton Health Access Initiative before founding The Muse and previously worked at McKinsey & Company. Her first book, "The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career," was a Wall Street Journal national bestseller.

She joins us to talk about what employees should be demanding from their employers, the future of the four-year university, and how contributing her writing without pay helped launch The Muse from it's "only eating ramen" phase to raising millions of dollars.

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