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Yossi Mlynsky and the Long Bet on Distance
Before remote hiring became an industry, Yossi Mlynsky was already learning how much a software team could accomplish without sharing a room. UpStack is the long result of that experiment - and AI is forcing him to ask the question all over again.
Iman Abuzeid Put the Job Interview in Reverse
A physician heard hospitals complain they could not find nurses, while nurses complained hospitals would not call back. Her answer was to make the employers do the chasing.
Harsh Trivedi and the Code Beneath the Interview
Before Mercor’s AI could interview candidates at scale, somebody had to turn plain templates into dependable machinery. Harsh Trivedi’s rise from intern to founding engineer is the quieter story inside that transformation.
John Kim’s Bet: Let AI Do the Chasing, and Let People Make the Match
Paraform’s co-founder spent midnight-to-lunch shifts in a university library learning an unfashionable lesson: when software makes outreach abundant, judgment and trust become scarce.
Robert Kowalski
Robert Kowalski is the co-founder and CEO of Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting platform that matches people to jobs and teams on personality, culture fit and ability rather than CVs. A Stanford GSB MBA and LSE economist, he built Gyfted with Stanford computational psychologist Michal Kosinski and engineer Adam Szefer to make remote hiring faster and less biased. He signs his own title 'Village Idiot ie. CEO' and frames the entire recruiting industry as broken and worth flipping over.
Simba Jonga
Simba Jonga is the founder and CEO of Laborup, an AI-powered hiring platform often described as the LinkedIn of manufacturing. A University of Tennessee chemical engineer turned Stanford AI researcher, he built Laborup after watching skilled machinists, welders and technicians struggle to get hired despite working inside high-tech factories. The platform uses an autonomous AI voice agent to interview and vet workers, building profiles in minutes and matching them to high-paying industrial jobs. Laborup has raised $7.7M from investors including NVP, Torch Capital and angels Jeff Dean, Jeff Jordan and Evan Moore, grown a 25,000-strong East Tennessee worker network, and is expanding across the South and Midwest.
Amanda Richardson
Amanda Richardson is the CEO of CoderPad, the technical hiring platform used by Spotify, LinkedIn, Shopify, and Lyft to evaluate developer talent in 160+ countries. A Wall Street equities analyst turned Silicon Valley product leader, she built her career through Eclipsys, Snagajob, Prezi, and HotelTonight before taking the helm at CoderPad and driving 4x revenue growth, a landmark acquisition of French competitor CodinGame, and expansion to 4,000+ customers conducting over 3 million assessments annually.
Vikas Aditya
Vikas Aditya is the Chief Executive Officer of HackerEarth, an enterprise platform that has redefined how the world's largest companies find, assess, and hire technical talent. Appointed CEO in July 2024, Aditya brings decades of experience from Intel, Veridic Solutions, and his own startup QuikFynd to a company serving 500+ enterprise customers and a community of over 4 million developers globally. Under his leadership, HackerEarth launched OnScreen - an always-on AI interview tool using lifelike avatars - and is pushing the industry toward evaluating aptitude over syntax as AI reshapes software engineering.