Akshay Krishnaiah is CEO & Founder of Line, the fast-growing fintech company.
After a successful career at Paypal & eBay, he stepped out on his own. And he personally interviewed hundreds of people to find his first few employees.
Based in SF, Line is the Venture-backed company helping American working-class Americans who are underbanked.
Their first offering is a “Get cash now, pay later” service.
Akshay & team have built a highly-scalable model. With a team of just 30, Line provides Underwriting, Dispute management, Risk operations, and 24-hour in-house customer support.
Clearly, they’re onto something big. Investors include: Techstars, Avesta Fund, CUNA Mutual Group, Goodwater Capital, overtime.vc, SustainVC.
In this 20-minute conversation, he shares how he’s put a Rockstar in every seat.
How does a startup with a dozen people change a monolithic industry?
Simple (but not easy): Hire for DNA Fit
And Brian King does it consistently.
He's CEO of Realto, the Kansas-based Private REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) marketplace. Brian & his team saw a gap in the market: there were limited options to buy and sell privately-held real estate.
So they created one.
Now, what used to be a manual paper-laden process is streamlined to days instead of months.
And he's onto something big....
Investors include KCRise & Firebrand Ventures.
In this 20-minute conversation, Brian reveals how he & his team hire primarily for DNA Fit (even before skills & competencies). And why it's helped them change an industry.
The only thing better than talking culture & leadership with a progressive talent leader? Talking with two of them.
Aparavi helps organizations that desperately need a solution to the mountains of data they need to manage.
It's the cloud based platform for finding & consolidating your company's unstructured & distributed data.
Speaking of distributed, Aparavi has a distributed team of 100. In this episode, Tania Williams (People & Culture Strategist) and Luis Zambrano (Chief of Staff) reveal how they put a Rockstar in every seat of the business.
And how they assess candidates for culture match with Aparavi.
Tania was previously a talent leader at 24 Hour Fitness and Sears Holdings. Luis was with HealthTrust Software and MGA Homecare.
There's a SaaS platform for everything... And everyone.
Including SimpleLegal, the fast-growing SaaS platform for in-house counsels. It's part of Onit, the leading provider of enterprise legal management & contract lifecycle management software, which is backed by the PE firm K1 Investment Management.
Mark Weidick is President & General Manager of SimpleLegal, and he has a unique perspective having joined when the business was VC-backed. Now that the company is PE-backed, it has a different pace, metrics, and cadence.
Prior, he was CEO with a number of Venture Capital backed companies and senior executive with Cisco.
In this 20-minute conversation, he reveals how he's put a Rockstar in every seat. And how he evolved the culture from VC-backed to PE-backed.