Kathryn Minshew

And so I said, look, you know, I'm making 65 K a year.

And I'm going to live as if I'm making, you know, how cheaply can I live in Manhattan?

Which, by the way, is not easy to do.

It's not easy and be like, I'll have the tea, please.

And I was notorious for just being honestly, I'm soda water.

Exactly.

But you know what?

Like every, um, every time you do that, you're putting away money for your future.

And that's how I looked at it.

So I had 25 K when I came back from Rwanda, I still had about 25 K. I think I had 24 K because I had a little bit of traveling.

Um, and I started working on

actually a business that was pre-muse, but it was a very similar idea.

We created a content platform for professional women.

And, um, that was where we laid a lot of the groundwork and said, wait a second, there's this huge need for individual candidates who are thinking about, sorry, not even candidates, humans, people that are thinking, what do I want out of my career?

Um, how do I be a better manager?

Can I put an emoji in a workplace email?

And does that make me seem young or junior or is it casual and fun?

And how do I

think about navigating sort of workplace rules.

And so we were building up this content site and we realized that firstly, people were incredibly hungry for what we were offering.