
A college learning project became Fountain, a hiring platform for hourly workers. Keith Ryu’s next chapter asks a different question: when a product succeeds, who gets paid?

Sean Behr is the CEO of Fountain, the San Francisco-based hiring platform that moves frontline and hourly workers from application to onboarded in minutes. Before Fountain he founded Stratim (acquired by KAR) and helped scale Adap.tv into AOL. He has spent two decades turning Series A and B companies into acquisition stories, and now spends his time arguing that high-volume hiring is where AI actually earns its keep.