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I helped Sema4 go from 5 to 50 engineers through two raises totaling $200M, pre-IPO. As VP of Engineering, I re-built the engineering hiring function from scratch, hired the best people, and kept them for years.
Then I did it for other founders. 11 engineers at Classkick. The Head of Engineering at Journey Clinical. The entire founding Eng, Product and Design team at Jump.com, Co-founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore.
I want to do that for you.
AI made resumes free. Every founder I talk to has more candidates than they can process and less certainty than they had two years ago. Screening is no longer the bottleneck.
Judgment and taste are. Which of these people can actually operate at your stage, own a decision, and still be here in 18 months.
I've hired those engineers as a VP. I've been one. That's the call I'm making for you on every candidate, and it's the only thing I'm actually selling.
Classkick: 11 engineers, including their VP of Engineering. They came to me with 200 applications, 40 interviews, and zero hires. We rebuilt the interview process to move fast and stay inclusive. 11 hires later: 5 women, 6 men, with real diversity in background, education and geography.
Journey Clinical: Head of Engineering. Seed-funded mental health startup with product fit and nobody to build. Adam came out of my network almost the day we signed. He wrote the first lines of code at Sema4 and scaled that team through IPO as an engineering manager. At Journey, he stayed four years, built the entire system himself and they didn’t need a second engineer needed until Series A.
Jump.com: the founding team, in stealth. Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore backed an all-star exec team and needed a founding engineering, product and design to match. Built in stealth, no public marketing materials, no company name. They renewed, having us hire another three founding members, then tried to hire me in-house.
Exclusive and retained, a few clients at a time. That cap is the product. It's what lets me do the following instead of just forwarding you resumes: