They told YC they wanted to corner careers for women. Eleven years later they bought that market back.
The Muse's W12 application names one wedge: a community of job-seeking women, built to rival The Ladders. The company outgrew it, reached a peak Minshew puts at 70 million annual users, then in 2022 paid cash and stock to buy that market back.
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