Background
Muse is the son of Ralph Buckley Muse a successful United States business executive.
founder Chief Executive Officer
Muse is the son of Ralph Buckley Muse a successful United States business executive.
University of Texas at Austin.
Previously he founded, a venture backed startup subsequently sold to Equinix (Switch & Data). In 2005 Muse created a reality television series called MotorSport Ranch that initially aired on INHD and can currently be seen on VOOM. Muse maintains the popular weblog StartupMuse. Founded in 2014, is a collection of local digital lifestyle brands, including CultureMap and RSVP Calendar, leveraging various technologies to engage with more than 3 million users each month.
Robert Bennett and Alexander Muse co-founded the company after raising approximately $1M in seed capital from prominent investors including 500 Startups and Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate.
The company is currently generating more than $5M in annual run-rate revenue and is actively looking for additional digital properties to grow their footprint nationally. Has been downloaded more than 40 million times and is the most popular shopping mobile shopping application on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7.
In 2014 the company was purchased by Purch for an undisclosed sum. Prior to founding, Muse held various sales positions with International Crisis Group Communications (metropolitan fiber provider), Bolt, Beranek and Newman Technologies Planet (internet backbone provider) and Broadwing (long haul fiber provider).
Realizing a need for each of these companies to connect to one another, Muse wrote a 300-page business plan detailing his concept for neutral interconnection points in each major city in the United States.
Muse pioneered the concept of "buy-side" interconnection, whereby carriers were encouraged to participate in "pooling points" in major cities without upfront costs. Carriers who sold connectivity were charged a monthly recurring fee based on the capacity of the connection. Within three years the company provided interconnection services to every major and most minor telecommunications companies in the United States with the notable exception of Sprint.
In 2003 Muse left to become Chief Executive Officer of, an information technology services company he co-founded with Scott H. Ryan in 2001. provides managed cloud services to medium and large sized businesses.