{"id":52862,"date":"2025-09-30T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52862\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:47:08","slug":"shreya-murthy-time100-next-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52862\/","title":{"rendered":"Shreya Murthy: TIME100 Next 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Shreya Murthy believes the best moments of our lives happen offline. As the co-founder and CEO of Partiful, she\u2019s building tech to make it easier to create meaningful, real-world memories. Now used in over 100 countries, the digital invitation platform has powered countless birthday parties, weddings, and the 2024 Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet look-alike contest in New York City where the Oscar-\u00adnominated actor himself showed up. While guests can RSVP without an account, 5 million new users signed up in the first half of 2025 to host their own events and access extra features.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">The company focused on in-person events was founded in 2020 just as the world went into lockdown. If anything, however, the pandemic only underscored the profound human need for real-world connection, Murthy says. \u201cI think we all realized during the pandemic how important in-person hangouts are to our mental health, to our sense of community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shreya Murthy believes the best moments of our lives happen offline. As the co-founder and CEO of Partiful,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,16498,44980],"class_list":["post-52862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sponsorshipblock","tag-time100-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}