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Maria Katris Learned the Future of Work Behind a Pharmacy Counter
Before Built In connected millions of people with tech companies, Katris learned business at her parents' neighborhood pharmacy: know the community, mind the details, and build something worth caring about.
Adam Calica Built a Job Board by Listening to the Wrong Part of the Website
A forum’s busiest threads told Adam Calica and his co-founder what their company really was. Fifteen years later, Built In is still following that signal - from Chicago startups to the strange new labor market inside AI search.
Lisa Colella Learned to Make the Invisible Visible
Before leaders can move a company, they have to make meaning. Lisa Colella has spent two decades turning overlooked signals - candidate experiences, repeated conversations, the order of a meeting - into strategy people can actually follow.
Martha Marchesi Has Spent 40 Years Making Every Word Earn Its Place
The Madison Avenue copywriter became JK Communications' first female CEO by keeping faith with an unfashionable idea: clarity is not the garnish on strategy. It is the strategy.
The Design Firm That Learned to Sell the Invisible
Savage Brands began with a woman who refused to be paid like a secretary, survived a technology bet that did not, and became a second-generation experiment in making corporate belief useful.
The One-Person Communications Department
A German consultancy with one public-facing operator takes on the jobs that usually bounce between an agency, an internal team and the executive floor. Its product is not volume. It is continuity.
The Small Agency Built for Four Hundred Front Doors
Sandlot & Co. began in a beige basement. Now its small Kansas City team manages the unruly problem of making one brand feel local across more than 400 locations.
The People Who Move Before the Company Does
HudsonLake built a business around the moments when a company can no longer rely on an all-staff email. Its job is to move the workforce, the leadership team and the public story in the same direction.
KVA Makes Its Living in the Forty-Eight Hours Nobody Wants
When a merger, recall or angry post outruns the org chart, this Charlotte consultancy brings senior communicators, a five-step system and a talent for making the next decision feel smaller.
The Message Inside the House
Most agencies help a company talk to the market. Full Tilt starts with the harder question: does the company sound believable to the people already inside it?
Never Enough asks who’s keeping your brand’s promises
A marketing consultancy with a recruiter’s instincts, Never Enough connects the stories companies tell with the experience of working for them. Its founder’s projects move from mobile ads to employee podcasts - with a lot of listening in between.
KWSM finds the story hiding in your customer’s headache
A former news anchor built a marketing agency around a reporter’s instinct: follow the problem. KWSM turns that instinct into websites, campaigns and introductions that give buyers a reason to listen.
Traina and the art of being seen differently
A space museum looking forward. A grocer finding its neighbors. A tractor maker recruiting technologists. Traina works in the gap between what a company has become and what people still think it is.
Kariyer.net has 40 million CVs. Its next job is making them count.
Turkey’s recruitment veteran built its business on job ads. Now it is selling the work around the hire, from finding candidates to rehearsing the interview.
Teamtailor Makes Hiring Feel Less Like Filing
This Swedish ATS puts the career site and the candidate experience in the same room as the hiring pipeline. The result is unusually friendly recruiting software, with one grown-up catch: you have to ask what it costs.
The Yellow Pages Company That Refused to Die - and Now Wants to Run Your Hiring Funnel
Radancy began in phone-book ads, helped create Monster.com, and survived the collapse of print by rebuilding itself around enterprise recruitment software. Its latest bet is that AI agents can stitch the whole hiring journey together - without asking companies to replace the systems they already use.
Symphony Talent Is Rebuilding Job Search Before AI Rewrites the Résumé Pile
The enterprise recruiting company spent a decade stitching software, media and employer branding into one system. Now it is betting that the next job-search box will answer questions instead of matching keywords.
Indeed Is Rebuilding the Job Hunt Around the Match, Not the Search
The internet's biggest jobs index is turning itself into a two-sided matching machine. Its advantage is not a clever chatbot - it is two decades of signals about what people click, apply for and ultimately get hired to do.
Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle is a Paris-founded employer-branding and job-search platform that turns static job listings into immersive, media-rich company profiles - videos, photography and editorial content that show what it is really like to work somewhere. Launched in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel, it pairs a consumer job-search destination drawing 3.5 million monthly visitors with a B2B SaaS suite used by 5,500+ companies to build their employer brand and manage candidates. After acquiring UK job-search app Otta in 2024, it operates across France, Europe and the United States.
Jérémy Clédat
Jérémy Clédat is the co-founder and co-CEO of Welcome to the Jungle, the Paris-born work experience company that has grown into a job-search and employer-branding platform used by thousands of companies worldwide. A former venture capitalist who spent six years backing media, HR and education businesses, he left finance to build a media-driven alternative to soul-crushing job boards. Under his leadership the company adopted a permanent four-day work week, raised roughly €79 million across three rounds, and pushed into the United States from a New York base. He argues the recruiting industry lacks authenticity and transparency, and has built Welcome to the Jungle around showing candidates what work is really like.
JobPixel
JobPixel is a San Francisco enterprise video platform that helps talent-acquisition and marketing teams collect, edit, brand, and distribute authentic user-generated video from employees, candidates, and customers. Founded in 2020 by Omar Khateeb and Anthony Duerr, it aims to humanize hiring by moving beyond the resume - letting companies build employer brand and screen candidates with short-form video at enterprise scale.
Joveo
Joveo is a Menlo Park-based AI-powered recruitment marketing platform that helps employers, staffing agencies, and RPO firms attract and hire talent more efficiently. Founded in 2017 by Kshitij Jain, the platform manages programmatic job ad campaigns across 500+ job boards, social media, and search engines using AI-driven bid management and analytics. Joveo's suite — including Mojo Pro, Mojo Gro, Mojo Engage, and Mojo Go — covers the full hiring funnel from job distribution to candidate engagement, career site CMS, and unified analytics. The company has been on the Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years and was named among the Top 25 AI Companies of 2025.
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.