2 IPO’s ➡️ 8x Midas Venture Capitalist (Recruit Rockstars 443)
Release Date: 12/22/2021
Coffee, Anyone? (Recruit Rockstars 467)
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As a rule, I don’t have many guests back on the Podcast. (I like to keep it fresh.) But in this case, I made a rare exception. Because Jonathan Treble, Founder & CEO of WithMe, is en fuego. He heads the Chicago-based leader in apartment community amenities. Their shared printers (PrintWithMe) and shared coffee makers (SipWithMe) are now in countless apartment buildings & dorms across the country. Not only is a great perk, but also it allows owners & managers to control expenses & provision supplies. Jonathan & team have partnered with the hardware manufacturers, created the software,...
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He’s Driven to be Mission-Driven (Recruit Rockstars 466)
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You don't meet many people like Tony Huang. After graduating from Harvard, he pursued education as a fourth grade teacher outside of Boston. He then transitioned to a business career at Axon where he helped commercialize & create the body camera industry that is integral to public safety. Now he is on a new mission: to make financial products more fair & affordable for everyday people. For the past 5 years, he's been CEO and Co-Founder of Possible Finance, which helps communities break the debt cycle and unlock economic mobility. And he's on to something big. His venture investors...
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How This Founder/CEO Hired His First 30 (Recruit Rockstars 465)
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Akshay Krishnaiah is CEO & Founder of Line, the fast-growing fintech company. After a successful career at Paypal & eBay, he stepped out on his own. And he personally interviewed hundreds of people to find his first few employees. Based in SF, Line is the Venture-backed company helping American working-class Americans who are underbanked. Their first offering is a “Get cash now, pay later” service. Akshay & team have built a highly-scalable model. With a team of just 30, Line provides Underwriting, Dispute management, Risk operations, and 24-hour in-house customer support. Clearly,...
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How to Hire for DNA Fit
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How does a startup with a dozen people change a monolithic industry? Simple (but not easy): Hire for DNA Fit And Brian King does it consistently. He's CEO of Realto, the Kansas-based Private REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) marketplace. Brian & his team saw a gap in the market: there were limited options to buy and sell privately-held real estate. So they created one. Now, what used to be a manual paper-laden process is streamlined to days instead of months. And he's onto something big.... Investors include KCRise & Firebrand Ventures. In this 20-minute conversation, Brian reveals how...
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How They Assess Candidates for Culture Fit
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The only thing better than talking culture & leadership with a progressive talent leader? Talking with two of them. Aparavi helps organizations that desperately need a solution to the mountains of data they need to manage. It's the cloud based platform for finding & consolidating your company's unstructured & distributed data. Speaking of distributed, Aparavi has a distributed team of 100. In this episode, Tania Williams (People & Culture Strategist) and Luis Zambrano (Chief of Staff) reveal how they put a Rockstar in every seat of the business. And how they assess candidates for...
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Transitioning from VC to PE Backed
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There's a SaaS platform for everything... And everyone. Including SimpleLegal, the fast-growing SaaS platform for in-house counsels. It's part of Onit, the leading provider of enterprise legal management & contract lifecycle management software, which is backed by the PE firm K1 Investment Management. Mark Weidick is President & General Manager of SimpleLegal, and he has a unique perspective having joined when the business was VC-backed. Now that the company is PE-backed, it has a different pace, metrics, and cadence. Prior, he was CEO with a number of Venture Capital backed...
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Lure Them to the Office with Free Food (Recruit Rockstars 461)
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Jeff Grass knows how to get your hesitant employees back to the office. This serial entrepreneur is Co-Founder & CEO of Hungry Marketplace. Based in Arlington VA, Hungry is tackling the $100 Billion business food & events industry with a food-tech marketplace & logistics platform that provides unparalleled food & engagement solutions for businesses, powered by top local chefs. In short, Hungry partners with local chiefs to bring food to your office. So far, they operate in 9 markets with 250 employees. Clearly, Jeff's onto something big. Hungry doubled revenues last year, despite...
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And You Thought Your Team Was Complex? (Recruit Rockstars 460)
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Whether your team is hybrid or distributed or global, you’ve got nothing on Chad Mattix. He’s CEO & Founder of Kinettix, the leading IT field service support company. Based in Cincinnati, Chad & his team deliver 24/7/365 IT field service support on-site in over 100 countries. He’s built a fulltime team of 80 with a remote distributed team of thousands! Their customers are large IT service providers. And for them, they Install & service cameras, digital signage, POS systems, kiosks, network equipment. In this 20-minute conversation, Chad reveals how he’s built a global team of...
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How CNBC’s Careers Expert Nabbed the Job She Wanted (Recruit Rockstars 459)
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(Hint: She didn’t click “Apply” on some job board) Morgan Smith is Work Reporter with CNBC and its industry-leading careers website “Make It” Previously, you’ve read her pieces in People Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Associated Press. Morgan discovered her passion for some meaty topics: the future of work, interviewing, hiring, job search. So, she proactively went after the job she wanted. CNBC wasn’t looking. But she didn’t let that hold her back. In this 20-minute conversation, she reveals step-by-step how she did it. Plus, she reveals the most...
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How She Brings Lofters Aloft (Recruit Rockstars 458)
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Growth-stage companies don’t get much hotter than Salesloft, the leading platform for sales reps to execute their day to day selling tasks. Put simply, they enable sales teams to drive more revenue. Customers include Stripe, ServiceNow, and Shopify. And the company’s leadership team is committed to culture like few others. Katie Branham is VP People at Salesloft, where she’s tripled headcount to 750 Lofters in just 4 years. Unlike most, Katie & team have developed a crystal clear employer value proposition “we promise you’ll learn more here than anywhere”...
info_outlineIf you’re like most business leaders, you spend plenty of time designing your company’s business model.
Mike Maples warns that you need to spend as much time designing your team, based on your company’s stage & strategy.
He should know.
Mike is Co-Founder & Partner at Floodgate, one of the original early-stage venture capital firms (i.e. writing the first $1M check) he formed 15 years ago.
Mike’s been named to the Forbes Midas List 8 times in the last decade, and for good reason..
He was an early investor in the companies you love: Twitter, Lyft, Bazaarvoice, Storable, TaskRabbit, Twitch (acquired by Amazon), Chegg, Demandforce, Smule, Outreach, Okta, Weebly (acquired by Square)
Better still, he’s built companies on both sides of the table, starting as an executive at back-to-back startup IPOs: Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM) and Motive (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent)
He’s one of the most insightful investors I’ve met. Which is why I’m hooked on his Starting Greatness Podcast. On it, he talks about teams & hiring
Says Mike: “To build your bench, you must spend 25% of your time on recruiting, no matter what.”
Something tells me if Mike wasn’t a legendary VC investor, he’d make a remarkable recruiter. In this 20-minute conversation, Mike shares how to design the right team for your business model & current stage.