Catherine Connelly
Catherine Connelly is a veteran tech entrepreneur who spent two decades building and scaling companies in the online dating and social discovery space. In 2020, she sold her company, The Meet Group, in a $500M acquisition.
After the exit, Catherine faced a familiar but rarely discussed challenge among high-performing founders: how to translate experience into a meaningful next chapter.
Her book, Designing Success, is not a retrospective. It’s a blueprint, distilling hard-earned lessons from building, leading, exiting, and starting again.
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“I didn’t write this book to celebrate the past. I wrote it to design what came next.”
— Catherine Connelly
What Changed?
For Catherine, writing the book marked a shift from operator to architect.
The process helped her:
• Clarify what actually mattered from 20 years of building
• Separate identity from title and valuation
• Turn experience into a platform for speaking, coaching, and leadership
The book became the bridge, not the destination.
