John Kim
@0xjohnkim
co-founder @paraformtalent | prev @tesla | engineering @sydney_uni
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? 👇
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…
kick off memorial day weekend with builders over ping pong + an open bar come through to try to beat @handotdev lu.ma/lpxxk7pp
If you've ever wanted an office ping pong table, this is your chance to win one! 🏓 We're partnering with our friends at @paraformtalent, @usepylon, @mintlify, and @rhobusiness to gather early stage startup folks for a night of ping pong, drinks, and new friends! 📍 SPIN San…
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%…
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
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.
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…
🇺🇸 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.
"This is really Cursor for Slides. Everything else is a toy"
founders get all the hype but founding engineers deserve some love and recognition too. that's why we're hosting a founding engineer meetup to provide a space for founding engineers to share war stories 🫡 pull up next week! (3/5)