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Amir Reiter Bet the Agency on a Marketplace - Then Went Back to the Work That Mattered
CloudTask’s founder traded a profitable service business for a risky marketplace, learned where software ends and trust begins, and rebuilt around a stubborn idea: careers compound when companies invest in people before they look obvious.
Boris Krastev Cleaned 3,500 Toilets Before He Built a Global Hiring Company
Before RemoteMore connected companies with engineers across borders, its CEO was funding his Danish education with factory shifts, warehouse cleaning and a schedule that left little room for sleep. The useful lesson in Boris Krastev's story is not heroic suffering - it is his stubborn habit of turning each failed model into a more practical one.
Robert Kowalski
Robert Kowalski is the co-founder and CEO of Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting platform that matches people to jobs and teams on personality, culture fit and ability rather than CVs. A Stanford GSB MBA and LSE economist, he built Gyfted with Stanford computational psychologist Michal Kosinski and engineer Adam Szefer to make remote hiring faster and less biased. He signs his own title 'Village Idiot ie. CEO' and frames the entire recruiting industry as broken and worth flipping over.
Tom Nakata
Tom Nakata (Tomofumi Nakata) is the co-founder and CEO of Qlay, a San Francisco AI startup he built after stints at McKinsey, J.P. Morgan, and Disney and a Harvard statistics degree. Qlay began as a generative-AI consumer-sentiment engine and pivoted into AI-powered interview proctoring - eye-gaze tracking, speech-cadence analysis, and multi-camera monitoring that catches AI-assisted cheating in remote technical interviews. Raised across Singapore, Tokyo, and California, Nakata describes his team as 'a shark that never stops,' chasing authenticity and measurable impact while sourcing engineering talent across Africa, Vietnam, and beyond.