
She started recruiting in her teens, learned the machinery from inside, then spent years making hiring technology legible. Amanda Hahn’s career is a study in what happens when the marketer has actually done the work.

After thousands of hours hiring for an AI consultancy, Abhishek Agarwalla decided the first interview needed a new operating system. His path from petroleum engineering to Fabric is a study in staying close to the work.
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.