Elevate Hire Podcast
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -The Elevate Hire Podcast features CEOs, founders, and executives of early-stage companies who talk about their experiences of building teams.
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How to Build Your Team While Bootstrapping in a Competitive Market With Nick Nanakos, Founder and CEO of TruckBux
August 25, 2020 06:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBNick Nanakos is the Founder and CEO of TruckBux, a full-stack online ordering platform for food truck owners and their customers. While studying Finance and Real Estate at Drexel University, Nick worked part-time & in internships at several large firms such as J.P. Morgan, Investors Capital, Balfour Beatty, and Ameriprise Financial. He founded the Drexel University Real Estate Club and made a ton of connections, amassing knowledge in the sector. However, Nick found himself immensely unhappy ...
Using a VC Investment Assessment Framework To Interview For Your Key Hires with Christian Kameir, Managing Partner at Sustany Capital
August 18, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBChristian Kameir is a Managing Partner at blockchain venture fund Sustany Capital in Newport Beach. Mr. Kameir has been a technology entrepreneur since the dial-up days and led the merger of two of the earliest internet service providers in Europe, after which he immigrated from Germany to California to establish an international investment firm. After founding a Yelp-predecessor in 2004 and selling the operation in 2008, he joined the board of several high-tech companies. In addition to ...
Find Out How a Serial Founder and Advisor Thinks About Building Teams in the Cannabis Industry with Travis Steffen, CEO of GrowFlow
August 11, 2020 06:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBTravis Steffen, bestselling author of Viral Hero, is a serial entrepreneur with 7 successful exits (and some crash-and-burn failures) to his name. Travis is the CEO of GrowFlow, a cloud-based software suite for cannabis businesses. With customers ranging from growers to retailers, GrowFlow is the market-leading cannabis software solution in several states. Travis is a life-long athlete with a Masters in Exercise Physiology from the University of Northern Iowa. Outside of his professional l...
Delaying the Need to Hire and Then Strategically Growing Your Team With First-Time Founder, Emmanuel Straschnov, Co-CEO and Founder of Bubble
August 04, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBEmmanuel Straschnov is Co-CEO and Founder of Bubble, a visual programming software that makes programming as easy as pointing and clicking. Bubble counts more than 400,000 users; people have used it to start companies without technical resources and have either been accepted into YCombinator & 500 Startups or raised multi-million dollar rounds. Born in Paris, Emmanuel studied computer science and mathematics at École Polytechnique and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Before ...
Hiring for a Purpose-Driven Company and Building Your Team from Scratch with Lori Shao, Founder and CEO of Finli
July 28, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBLori Shao is the Founder and CEO of Finli, a simplified payment platform for family-centric businesses. Lori is a financial services industry veteran of 17 years and a mother of two kids. In April 2019, she decided to quit her day job at JPMorgan and create a platform to power neighborhood businesses for the changing world. In this episode… While working in the banking industry, Lori Shao realized that most family-run small and medium-sized businesses that operated in neighborhood school...
Hiring, Managing, And Connecting A Fully Remote Company with Marcelo Lebre, CTO & Co-Founder of Remote
July 21, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBMarcelo Lebre is a product-oriented engineer who is passionate about building products, scaling architectures, and scaling teams. He is a whole-hearted supporter of entrepreneurs and a startup advisor. Marcelo is also a believer of ordinary people coming together to build extraordinary things. He is also the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Remote, a company making it easier for other companies to build teams anywhere in the world. Remote takes care of global payroll, bene...
A CTO’s Thoughtful Perspective For Building Talented and Culturally Fit Teams with Stuart Posin, CTO at XCLAIM
July 14, 2020 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBStuart Posin is the CTO at XCLAIM, a seed-funded startup revolutionizing the bankruptcy claims market by unleashing digital efficiencies of scale. He previously served as CTO at Violet Grey and Forcefield Online, technical advisor to Freebird Online, and Director of Technology at Marlborough School and The Buckley School. Stuart currently serves as a Trustee at the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (ATLIS), a non-profit he co-founded in 2015, and as Chair of the Boar...
Using Real Estate Insights and Data to Help Plan Your Organizational Structure and Way of Working with Jeff Vertun, First Vice President at CBRE
July 07, 2020 06:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBJeff Vertun is the First Vice President at CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate services firm. He specializes in advising technology, media, e-commerce, 3PL, and professional service companies to position their real estate needs as a vehicle for further growth across the world. Jeff also works closely with executives to analyze their office workplace and warehouse network logistics requirements. He engages in challenging strategic conversations and brings clarity to their opportu...
The Importance of Transparency and Honesty While Hiring for a Startup, and How OKRs Help With Distributed Teams with Renato Ricci, Founder & COO of nok
June 30, 2020 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBRenato Ricci is the Founder and COO of nok, a marketplace where you can try out high-end products from home for free, backed by Greycroft, Village Global and Moonshots. nok is looking for super users - noksters - to join their community and help define product categories and service levels in exchange for early access to the service and exclusive giveaways. Before moving to the US earlier this year, Renato started the company in Germany after having worked as a senior strategy consultant i...
The Framework for Growing and Managing Complex Teams With Sanjiv Razdan, Former COO of Sweetgreen
June 23, 2020 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBSanjiv Razdan is the Founder of GLEAM Network and former Chief Operations Officer for Sweetgreen where he led the Field Operations, Food Safety & QA, and Ops Services + Innovation teams. He played a key role in shaping the strategy and direction of the brand as an integral member of its leadership team. Additionally, he was also the Chief of Operations for Dine Brands where he was instrumental in the turnaround of the brand. Prior to that, he had a multi-disciplinary global career with Yu...
How Recruiting Can Go from Order Takers to Talent Partners With Anoop Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of SeekOut
June 16, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBAnoop Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of SeekOut, a recruitment tool that empowers companies to go beyond LinkedIn when searching for hard-to-find and diverse talent. But that’s not all he’s done. Prior to SeekOut, Anoop spent 18 years at Microsoft where he was a Distinguished Scientist in Microsoft Research and directly reported to Bill Gates as his technology advisor. He headed enterprise communications products (Exchange, Skype) as Corporate Vice President (CVP) of Unified Communicatio...
An Investors Perspective on Hiring and Retaining Talent with Arteen Arabshahi, Vice President at WndrCo
June 09, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBArteen Arabshahi’s career path has been untraditional. The son of Iranian immigrants, he grew up planning to be a surgeon and bounced through medicine and finance before finding his passion in entrepreneurship and technology. He got his first job in this industry by cold emailing 150 people and spent 5 years in traditional venture capital (Fika Ventures, Karlin Ventures) before joining WndrCo to pursue a unique hybrid of entrepreneurship and investment. At WndrCo, Arteen manages the early st...
Insights Into Why Having Strong HR and Recruiting Experience Within Your Company Are Crucial for Success
June 02, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBRamiro Medina is the Chief Talent Officer at Wild Card. He has a wealth of knowledge in the HR recruiting space having worked in various industries and he has been pivotal in implementing best practices, training, and growth strategies in some amazing companies including Red Bull, Virgin Hyperloop One, True Religion, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. Ramiro's career has focused on building high-performing teams in high-pressure, must-win environments. His passion is in empowering individuals...
Tips for Building a Successful Recruiting Team and Making Sure You're Included in Company Hiring Decisions.
May 26, 2020 06:00 - 42 minutes - 33.7 MBBrian Breth is the Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Fair, a tech company that developed an app that can be downloaded to a mobile phone and used for finding used cars. After going through a successful application process, the car is delivered to a user who pays a monthly fee until he no longer needs it and has it returned. The company promotes the idea of a car as a service and their vision is to transform the way people think about car ownership and access to mobility. Brian has a ...
Going it Alone vs. Bringing in an External Recruiter
May 19, 2020 06:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBGreg Toroosian is the founder of Elevate Hire, a talent acquisition firm which provides leadership and senior-level recruiting services for early stage companies. He has spent more than a decade in talent acquisition recruiting for technical positions in software and IT, and has experience building non-technical teams in finance, marketing, and business. Greg believes recruiting and retaining talent is key to having a successful company. He is also the host of the Elevate Hire Podcast. ...
Candidate Experience: How to Create a Million Dollar Candidate Experience and Onboarding Process So you Have Great Retention
May 19, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBGreg Toroosian is the founder of Elevate Hire, a talent acquisition firm which provides leadership and senior-level recruiting services for early stage companies. He has spent more than a decade in talent acquisition recruiting for technical positions in software and IT, and has experience building non-technical teams in finance, marketing, and business. Greg believes recruiting and retaining talent is key to having a successful company. He is also the host of the Elevate Hire Podcast. ...
How Startups Can Create a Candidate Avatar and a Candidate Scorecard
April 13, 2020 18:10 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBGreg Toroosian is the founder of Elevate Hire, a talent acquisition firm that provides leadership and senior-level recruiting services for early-stage companies. He has spent more than a decade in talent acquisition recruiting for technical positions in software and IT and has experience building non-technical teams in finance, marketing, and business. He believes recruiting and retaining talent is key to having a successful company. Greg is also the host of the Elevate Hire Podcast. In th...