I’ve Had 100 Startup Meetings About How No One Can Find a Job

I have notes, and a solution

I just wrapped up my 100th meeting with people from startups and established companies alike, all of whom are trying to solve a massive problem: That no one seems to be able to find a job.

A few months ago, I inadvertently put out a public call, when I wrote that I believed the hiring problem was not only bigger than anyone suspected, but was rooted in deeper problems.

I noted that, as an entrepreneur myself, I was working on my own solutions to the hiring problem, and that I was already sharing ideas with other people and companies. That opened the floodgates for folks to contact me with their own solutions and strategies.

100 meetings later, I’ve got a lot of notes. I thought I’d start sharing.

Why Me and Who Are They?

I’ve hired hundreds of brilliant people into the amazing teams I’ve managed across a long career. Most of my career has been spent building startups from zero to exit or at least over the $50 million annual revenue mark. Not huge potatoes, but enough to know what I’m doing.

Also, at one of those startups, Automated Insights, I helped invent the first commercially available Generative AI platform, back in…