Mike Steib Email Address

Author of the Career Manifesto

Artsy is the online resource for art collecting and education. Discover, learn about, and buy art you'll love, featuring fine art, design, and photography from leading galleries, museums, art fairs, and auctions

Mike is the CEO of Artsy, the largest online marketplace for buying and selling art by the world's leading artists. Previously, Mike was the CEO of XO Group Inc (NYSE:XOXO), parent company of The Knot. After developing America’s number one wedding planning app and two-sided local vendor marketplace, XO Group was sold in December of 2018 for $933M, a 350% increase in the company’s equity value over Mike’s five-year tenure. Mike serves on the board of Ally Financial (NYSE:ALLY), a Fortune 500 digital financial services company that helps millions of Americans save, invest, and borrow for their most important purchases; he chairs Ally’s Technology Committee and sits on Ally's Risk Committee. He is also the author of The Career Manifesto (Penguin Random House, 2018), a guide for young professionals seeking more purpose and joy in their work, and the Chairman Emeritus of Literacy Partners, a nonprofit that provides free adult literacy and family support services to underprivileged New Yorkers. Previously, Mike served in roles at Google, NBC Universal, Vente-Privee USA, Walker Digital, and McKinsey & Company. Mike has received a Crain’s New York 40 Under 40 recognition, Google Great Manager Award, and GE Imagination Breakthrough award. He has appeared on NBC's Today show, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business, as well as in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, Fast Company, the NY Post, AdAge, Parade, and others. He has a 95% CEO approval rating on Glassdoor. Mike received a BA in Economics and a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a named inventor of three patents and played a supporting actor role in the independent film The Mad Ones. He is married to Kemp Steib, the CFO of The Second Shift, a marketplace for highly skilled professional women. Follow: instagram.com/mikesteib || twitter.com/mikesteib