The Muse

“I mean, even today, in most cases, you are confronted when you go to those sites by a giant blank search box. You have to type something in and you'll get 3724 results, and they all look the same. What sort of, I mean, I'll get off my soapbox, but I am offende…”

“We have over fifty million people who use the site every year to find a job, get to that next step, talk to a career coach, get advice, learn a skill, anything that's related to taking charge of your career and sort of living the life that you want.”

“We've got a great population, a lot of women, a lot of millennials, a lot of digital natives”

“We've never had advertising on the site. I think banner advertising has no place on the muse.”

“So we actually had a 100,000 users a month in about six months. So it was not all that much time.”

“Essentially we have these businesses of various sizes that subscribe to the Muse. It's an annual subscription. And through that, they get a range of different tools. They have the ability to literally have a profile on the new site and hire from our community,…”

“Our Customers pay for a fair point of our growth and we can use venture capital really to accelerate and not to sort of, yeah, exactly to support.”

“And then on the other side, we have over 600 companies From Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, to HBO, Goldman Sachs, Marriott businesses large and small, and we help them with hiring and employer branding.”

“And we launched our first job listing about a month later. It was a test. We did it with a little known Silicon Valley startup called Uber that had about 50 employees at the time, and, ah, we decided to see if we could get them some hires from our platform.”

“We raised about a hundred K in January of plus we got into Y Combinator. So that came with about a 170,000 dollars. That was our first seed funding.”

“Unfortunately Uber made two offers from the Muse, and both people turned down those jobs, so we didn't get the success money, but the caliber of people who came through was so high that we felt like we had proved We were onto something.”

“So right now the average is between 20 and 30 K. But the enterprise number of enterprise deals is rising quite a bit more quickly than our mid-market business.”

“We will regularly have companies, especially, again, tech companies, up-and-coming companies, that will suddenly email out of the blue. We think that they're very happy, and they'll email out of the blue and say I need my profile to come down. And we used to j…”