
John Kim
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co-founder @paraformtalent | prev @tesla | engineering @sydney_uni
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Joined September 2021
These folks gambled their careers on Larry & Sergei's search engine startup. They wrote Google's first lines of code. Sold its first ads. Grew its first teams. They started in a garage, and walked away with millions. Where are Google's first 10 non-founding hires now? 👇
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6 months, 25 million revenue agents & 3 trillion tokens later... Rox is now globally available 🌎 Just as coding agents 10x’d engineering, revenue agents 10x customer work. With Rox, humans are evolving to orchestrators while agents manage the end-to-end customer lifecycle.
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We just spent $60k on a recruiter gala at the Mandarin Oriental in NYC @paraformtalent is recruiter-first forever
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I’m excited to share that @tryconversion has raised a $28M Series A led by @AbstractVC to build the modern marketing automation platform. Four years ago, @james__jiao and I started Conversion out of our UC Berkeley dorm room. Since then, we’ve launched, pivoted, and rebuilt the
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Matching the right candidate to the right role is the largest problem in talent @lijeffrey39 and our team are solving it and putting recruiters in the drivers seat Forget the 10x engineer, we're creating the 10x recruiter
We just launched Paraform Matches Our AI-powered matching tool surfaces high-quality role opportunities for candidates instantly What currently takes days of manual searching is now a just a few clicks away In less a month, it's already driving 1000s of interviews and a 60%
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IN NEWS: @paraformtalent raises a $20M Series A led by @felicis. We asked @0xjohnkim about the future of tech recruitment: "I don't think that an important tech company hiring the best marketing person will be too dissimilar to the Lakers announcing LeBron joined." "As AI
Hiring is more important than ever Yet, recruiting is largely unsolved and slow We raised our $20M Series A, led by @felicis to fix that And we're just getting started
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Tune in at 1:30PM PST 👀 Excited to be on
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: – @deedydas (Menlo Ventures) – @Emily_Sundberg (Feed Me) – @0xMert_ (Helius) – @0xjohnkim (Paraform) – @gravicle (Luma AI) - @zck (Lewis Burke) - @bridge__harris (Founders Fund) See you all on the stream.
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Thanks to our investors: @ssankar for entrusting us with hiring for your teams @cliffobrecht, @MelanieCanva, and @themaninblue for being a part of our journey @Max for coming to our office for lunch and teaching us how to navigate marketplaces @Jeffreyw5000 from FJ Labs for
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Hiring is more important than ever Yet, recruiting is largely unsolved and slow We raised our $20M Series A, led by @felicis to fix that And we're just getting started
We're excited to finally announce Paraform’s $20M Series A led by Felicis, alongside A*, @BOND, and @Liquid2V to build the best platform for hiring top talent. One that makes recruiting truly intelligent, deeply human, and infinitely scalable.
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The best companies often face some skepticism in the early days: “Why will this work when others have failed?” Having seen dozens of (ai and non ai) recruiting tech companies over the last decade, it was clear to us when we met @0xjohnkim and @lijeffrey39 that @paraformtalent
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🇺🇸 18 years later… I finally got my green card! There is truly no better place in the world than the United States to do what I do.
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"This is really Cursor for Slides. Everything else is a toy"
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tag the best ping pong player you know we're hosting the biggest startup ping pong tourney next Friday night here in San Francisco. RSVP link below 🏓
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To help builders take a break and relax a bit with peers, we're hosting our first-ever Startup Ping Pong Tournament in SF this Friday. It's an approval-required gathering of early-stage teams with: - One champion - Open bar - Competitive matches - Conversations that matter
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