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BJ Dodenbier Is Still Climbing
A zombie film, a career in marketing systems, and a 13,528-foot reset: the former Aequor CMO has spent years turning messy journeys into stories people can follow. Now the next journey is his own.
Mateo Cavasotto Put the Job Application Where the Worker Already Was
A volunteer project in Buenos Aires exposed a quiet hiring failure: millions of capable people were being judged by paperwork built for someone else. Mateo Cavasotto’s answer began as a chat, survived four Y Combinator applications, and grew into enterprise software for frontline work.
Omar Khateeb
Omar Khateeb is the co-founder and CEO of JobPixel, a San Francisco video platform that drops TikTok-style, interactive video into the hiring process so candidates and employers can 'virtually shake hands' before a single interview. He started the company in 2020 as a remote-first, deliberately lean operation and grew it past $2.7M in revenue with a team that has hovered around 14 people. A UC Davis grad who once ran events for Instagram and sold for Cisco, Omar is a vocal believer that hiring lost its humanity to the 10-second resume scan, and he is on a mission to put faces and voices back into it.
Lydia Han
Lydia Han is the co-founder and CEO of ModernLoop, a recruiting operations platform she started in December 2020 to fix the chaos of coordinating hundreds of interviews. A product manager by training, she built Slack's calendar and Zoom integrations and set up Brex's interview process before founding the company through Y Combinator's W21 batch. ModernLoop has raised roughly $12.4M, including a $9M Series A led by Accel with the CEOs of Slack and Zoom writing checks, and powers hiring for companies like Ramp, Benchling, Chainalysis, and VSCO.