Episodes

  • End of Season 1 of the Gradience!

    End of Season 1 of the Gradience!
    Jan 31 2023
    It’s been a whole year of invaluable conversations with some of the brightest minds in the startup community. At The Gradience, a podcast by Build Talent, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with founders, talent partners, venture partners, visionaries and experts of all different backgrounds, and we’re incredibly grateful for their contributions.
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    2 mins
  • Team Building and Work Culture with Andrei Papancea, CEO and Chief Product Officer at NLX

    Team Building and Work Culture with Andrei Papancea, CEO and Chief Product Officer at NLX
    Jan 17 2023
    Joining us this week to explore this topic is Andrei Papancea, CEO and Chief Product Officer at NLX. NLX is a conversational artificial intelligence platform that creates automated, personalized, and multimodal customer self-service experiences without coding. Andrei is an adjunct professor at the University of Colombia, where he shares his knowledge of AI engineering, cloud computing, and big data use.
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    28 mins
  • Knowing the Right Time to Hire as a Startup with Aamir Virani, Advisor, Explorer, and President of VSHAD Holdings

    Knowing the Right Time to Hire as a Startup with Aamir Virani, Advisor, Explorer, and President of VSHAD Holdings
    Jan 3 2023
    Joining us this week to explore this topic is Aamir Virani, Advisor, Explorer, and President of VSHAD Holdings. He is a co-founder of Dropcam, a company that established home monitoring cameras and cloud video analysis and which was later acquired by Google Nest and rebranded as Nest Cam and the Nest Aware service. Before that, he was a software engineer at PowerReviews and the Lead Software engineer at Xobni. He was also a member of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship, 2021 and an angel and venture investor.
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    37 mins
  • The Importance of Hiring Employees with High EQ, with Tim Tully, Partner at Menlo Ventures

    The Importance of Hiring Employees with High EQ, with Tim Tully, Partner at Menlo Ventures
    Dec 20 2022
    Joining us this week to explore this topic is Tim Tully, Partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that provides funds for seed, early-stage, and growth companies. Before that, he was the SVP & CTO of Splunk, a leader in the software development industry that provides a data platform for security and observability. He has also worked as a technical advisor at Camino, OpenGov Inc, and Alpine.AI.
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    42 mins
  • Celebrating the First 20 Episodes of The Gradience Podcast

    Celebrating the First 20 Episodes of The Gradience Podcast
    Dec 6 2022
    Today we have a special episode. Recently, we have reached our twentieth episode milestone, a huge win for Build Talent. We’ve talked with fantastic business founders and experts who shared their brilliant tips, wisdom, and insights about the art and science of hiring exceptional leaders.
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    39 mins
  • The Early Stages of Discovery with Robin Choy, Co-founder & CEO at HireSweet and Host at A-Players

    The Early Stages of Discovery with Robin Choy, Co-founder & CEO at HireSweet and Host at A-Players
    Nov 10 2022
    Joining us this week to explore this topic is Robin Choy, Co-founder & CEO at HireSweet and Host at A-Players Podcast - Build teams of top performers. Hiresweet's talent acquisition team searches and assesses top tech talent so companies don't have to. Every Monday, they showcase a selection of ~800 software engineers (and growing) open to opportunities.
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    38 mins
  • The Craft of Recruiting with Paula Judge, VP Talent at Accel

    The Craft of Recruiting with Paula Judge, VP Talent at Accel
    Oct 25 2022
    Paula Judge, VP Talent at Accel, joins us this week to explore this topic. Accel is a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, CrowdStrike, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, FreshWorks, Jet, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, UiPath, and Vox Media are among the companies the firm has backed over the past 35 years.
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    52 mins
  • The Benefit of Hiring Highly Experienced People in a StartUp with Martin Siniawski, Co-Founder & CEO at Podcast App

    The Benefit of Hiring Highly Experienced People in a StartUp with Martin Siniawski, Co-Founder & CEO at Podcast App
    Oct 11 2022
    Joining us this week to explore this topic is Martin Siniawski, Co-Founder & CEO at Podcast App, a team of podcast fanatics with more than 20 years of combined experience in the audio space. It is a minimalist podcast player enhanced with cutting-edge technology that leverages machine learning to build customized podcast playlists for users based on their interests and tastes.
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    44 mins