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Jellyvision turned a game-show trick into a benefits business
The makers of You Don’t Know Jack found a second act in the least festive corner of working life: employee benefits. ALEX turns a bewildering choice into a conversation - and is now moving into enrollment itself.
He Taught a Machine to Sit Across the Table From You
John Rytel is the co-founder and CTO of Alex (formerly Apriora), a San Francisco startup that builds an agentic AI recruiter which conducts live, real-time video interviews with job candidates. A Brown University graduate in computer science and applied mathematics, Rytel teamed up with Aaron Wang to launch the company in 2023, went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, and has helped raise roughly $20M from Peak XV Partners and 1984 Ventures. He is the builder behind the engine: the person who writes the code that lets an AI named Alex interview thousands of people at once.