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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.
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.
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.