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Happy Labor Day 👋 Given I’ve dedicated my career to helping people create their own Labor stories, I thought I’d share mine:
-I graduated in 2000 with a degree in Bio from UC Irvine. After exploring careers in medicine, dentistry and law, I followed my passion into business
-My first job was with @PIMCO where I stayed for 1 year working in their compliance department. I learned at a young age that the corporate life wasn’t for me.
-I then started my first business called Dice Media. We built interactive websites for local small businesses. We pioneered something called Dice Cards which were entire websites built into mini CDs. They were cool but never took off.
-I needed a job so stumbled into a small recruiting agency called Brelon Page. There I learned the ins and outs of full desk contingency recruiting. During my first year, I billed 120k and made 7 hires mostly in the space of Civil Engineering. Think pre-cursor to the real estate boom of ‘03-08.
-In 2002, after 1 year at Brelon Page, I started Binc. We specialized in tech and innovated in the areas of people culture and recruiting service models.
-I ran Binc for 19 years. We did contingency for the first 7 years and then in 2009, pioneered what the industry now refers to as embedded RPO for the tech industry.
-Our timing turned out to be pretty impeccable. We rode the entire ZIRP decade to 150 employees and 30M ARR, which we hit in 2019. We never took funding, were entirely revenue generated and always maintained profitability. During this decade we specialized in early engineering team buildouts and were responsible for early buildouts for industry leaders @Pinterest @Airbnb @Square @Ripple @stripe and many many more.
-In 2021 when recruiting was peak market, we decided to do something crazy and sold our company to @RobinhoodApp. Our 80-person team joined Robinhood’s internal team to help power the next stage of their growth ambitions.
-I worked at Robinhood for 2 years. My first year was spent working with their Corp Dev team to acquire companies that employed top industry talent. Together we bought Say Technologies, a shareholder empowerment platform and Cove Markets, a crypto trading platform. My second year was spent leading their Talent Acquisition function. This involved leading the ~100-person team through two layoffs and a hiring freeze to a place of sustainability and productivity.
-I left Robinhood in May of this year and am exploring the very early seedlings for what’s next.
-As the next chapter of my career develops, I’ll continue posting stories and lessons from throughout my career and build in public perspectives on current market experiences and happenings.
Hope you enjoyed and thanks again for following 👋
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