Podcast

I rarely see Glassdoor ratings this high. And it's vital, because Glassdoor is now the very first place that your prospective candidates look. Katy Shields is VP People at VSCO, the fast-growing creative tools company.…

I just met a VC. During our conversation, he said "The lifeblood of any great company is great people. Being able to recruit & retain them is the most important thing." Notice that he didn't…

How does a legendary Silicon Valley VC fund land the best talent? I wanted to find out. So I just met with Atli Thorkelsson. He's Director of Executive Talent at Redpoint Ventures, with $4.8 Billion…

Roy Bahat has seen the future. The future of work. Because he's head of Bloomberg Beta, the $200M Venture Capital fund based in SF and NYC. Backed by Bloomberg, Beta invests in startups that are…

You may not realize it. But you're competing for the best talent with the best companies in the world. Yet, it IS possible. Because you can offer things that Google & Facebook & Apple can't.…

I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Just interviewed Shannon Anderson. She is Director of Talent with the legendary VC firm Madrona Venture Group. Based in Seattle, Madrona specializes in seed, startup,…

David Waxman didn't start a company. He started three. And not just any companies. After graduating with a masters degree from MIT's Media Lab in 1995, David Co-Founded Firefly (acquired by Microsoft), PeoplePC (acquired by…

Kelsey Lawrie is VP Talent Operations at '87 '87 was born out of Chicago-based Sterling Partners, the multi-billion Private Equity fund founded in 1987. It invests in & incubates direct-to-consumer businesses. Kelsey was well-prepared for…

Sunny Vanderbeck knows a thing or two about selling companies. Sunny is Managing Partner of Satori Capital, a very different kind of Private Equity firm, based in Dallas. In his work as an investor, he…

You probably know about Silicon Valley startups. And Manhattan's tech chops. But have you seen the new companies that are cooking up in the Midwest? Or, as Ira Weiss, Partner of Hyde Park Venture Partners,…