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Rich Milgram Sold the Name and Kept the Company
The Nexxt founder made an entrepreneurial trade worthy of a parable: he gave up Beyond.com, the name he had once stretched to afford, so the company and its people could remain his responsibility.
Jonathan Bedard Learned Marketing by Following the Numbers
Before he ran Bullhorn's global marketing organization, Bedard studied economics, taught 900 students in Korea and learned to read a business from the finance desk. Now he is applying that unusual apprenticeship to the noisy arrival of AI.
Felix Kim Is Building AI for the People Silicon Valley Priced Out
A shy child learned what it costs to arrive without context. A lawyer learned how institutions manufacture trust. Now Felix Kim is spending his second career trying to make both problems smaller with code.
Art Papas Built the Wrong Thing. Then He Listened.
Bullhorn began as a marketplace nobody needed. Twenty-six years later, Art Papas is still running the company because he learned the founder's most useful trick: let the customer rewrite the plan.
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.
Ashish Vachhani Put Recruiters Back in the Loop - Then Let the Loop Learn
Before recruiting software became obsessed with automation, Ashish Vachhani built Reflik around a stubbornly human idea: the crowd can widen the search, but judgment still closes the hire.
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.
Joss Leufrancois
Joss Leufrancois is the co-founder and CEO of Visage, an AI-and-human recruitment platform that crowdsources qualified, ready-to-interview candidates for large employers. A French-born entrepreneur who learned recruiting across London, Dubai, and the US, he previously co-founded and ran the recruitment agency Aldelia before selling it, then launched Visage in Dubai in 2015-2016. Today he runs the fully remote company from a ranch near Austin, Texas, blending a global sourcer network with data science to build candidate pipelines in 24-48 hours for clients that have included Tesla, Adecco, GoDaddy, and Virgin.
Joe Essenfeld
Joe Essenfeld is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder & CEO of FORA (fora.day), a New York-based AI communication intelligence platform that transforms unstructured enterprise meeting, email, and chat data into actionable leadership insights. He previously founded Jibe, a recruiting technology platform that raised $40M+ and was acquired by iCIMS in 2019, where he served in senior executive roles before launching FORA. FORA raised a $3.8M pre-seed round in January 2024 and counts Converge, GTM Fund, Zelkova, and Everywhere Ventures among its backers.