#95: Jacob Hsu - CEO of Catalyte, Guaranteeing Career Transitioners Engineering Jobs

Breaking Into Startups

English - August 10, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes - 46.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 262 ratings
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It all started when Jacob Hsu immigrated from Taiwan at an early age! Fast forward to now, Jacob spends his time between San Mateo and Baltimore while he’s building and managing his team as the CEO of Catalyte.

An ex-banker, Jacob went on to create two startups, one of which is Symbio, a product development and R&D outsourcing services company. In just less than 11 years, the company has grown from $10 million to over $600 million in revenue. In 2016, Symbio got acquired for over a billion dollars.

Catalyte has a very unique business model, specifically using AI to find exceptional people from different backgrounds and helping them become great software engineers. Based in Baltimore, the company is now looking to expand to other cities where they can bring massive impact to local people within the community.

Today, Jacob talks about the different key elements Catalyte is built upon and why now is the time to kill the resume!