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Mikhil Raja Is Fixing the 12 Seconds That Make Job Seekers Quit
The SonicJobs founder went from junior tennis courts to investment banking, then bet a decade on one stubborn idea: applying for work should feel less like paperwork and more like progress.
Tracy Saunders Knows the Job Market’s Unwritten Rules. Now She Teaches Women to Rewrite Them
After two decades recruiting leaders for Google, Amazon, Cisco, and fast-growing technology companies, Tracy Saunders changed sides of the hiring table. BossmakeHer is her answer to a quiet career problem: accomplished women making consequential moves without the inside information employers already possess.
Lucas Martinez Is Ready for the Next Search
After 15 years building Talent.com from a Montreal startup into a global job-search platform, the founder who learned by moving fast has stepped away from the CEO seat - and toward San Francisco, AI and whatever comes next.
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.
David Fano
David Fano is the founder and CEO of Teal, an AI-powered career platform that helps people manage their job search, build resumes, and grow their careers. An architect by training, he co-founded the technology consultancy CASE Design, sold it into WeWork, and spent years as a senior executive there before leaving to build tools that put job seekers, not employers, in control. He runs Teal from Miami and is a frequent voice in press and podcasts on how AI is reshaping work.
Michael Yan
Michael Yan is the co-founder and CEO of Simplify (YC W21), a San Francisco-based AI-powered job search platform that has helped over 1 million job seekers apply to roughly 100 million job openings. A Morgantown, West Virginia native, Yan dropped out of Stanford to build Simplify after recognizing that students everywhere were lost in the job application chaos. He previously engineered AI/ML systems at Meta, conducted research at MIT CSAIL, and interned at Harvard Medical School. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2023 (Consumer Technology), Yan has built a 181,000+ follower audience on LinkedIn by sharing brutally practical job search advice - including the URL hack that landed him offers at Meta and Microsoft. Simplify has raised $4.35M from Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, and Soma Capital.