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Hunt Club Knows Who Can Get You a Reply
The hard part of hiring a leader is often getting the right person to listen. Hunt Club turns trusted introductions into a recruiting system, then uses AI to clear the paperwork out of the way.
HiWire
HiWire is a Silicon Valley advisory firm that helps early-stage startups offload three of the most time-consuming jobs a founder faces: recruiting senior talent, building investor-ready business and product plans, and raising money. Founded by Stanford-trained engineer and longtime recruiter Web Augustine, HiWire offers retained executive search for Director, VP and CEO roles at entrepreneur-friendly fees, contract sourcing, a rapid-turnaround program called SearchXeleration, and hands-on fundraising guidance including introductions to VCs and angel investors.
Web Augustine
Web Augustine is the founder and CEO of HiWire, a Menlo Park outfit that runs high-end executive search and fundraising help for early-stage startups at entrepreneur-friendly terms. A Stanford-trained mechanical engineer turned marketer, he was the first product manager on HP's DeskJet inkjet line, Sun Microsystems' employee 152, and the founding VP of marketing who helped spin VeriSign out as a standalone company in 1995. Four decades in, he splits his time between recruiting CEOs and VPs for founders, advising on pitch decks and financial forecasts, and writing books - including a 2020 political satire and a 1,400-entry quotations collection.