Hosted by Luiz Cent · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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WHO We Hire is built on a simple premise: no great company gets built without great people.Luiz Cent talks with founders, CEOs, CTOs, CPOs, COOs, and executives at technology companies to unpack how they hire, where they've gotten it wrong, and what they've learned scaling teams from the ground up.Topics include hiring strategy, talent acquisition, team building, leadership, company culture, scaling startups, and building high-performance teams in SaaS and tech.If you're a founder, operator, executive, board member, or VC, this show is for you.
Luiz Cent hosts WHO We Hire, a business show with 11 episodes published.
Mark Schopmeyer is the co-founder and co-CEO of CaptivateIQ, a modern commission-management platform that scales incentives for revenue teams. Prior to building his own company, he led finance and strategy operations at
Elio Narciso is the co-founder and CEO of ScaleStack, an AI-powered go-to-market infrastructure layer powering billions of data points for enterprise customers, and the host of the Revenue Engine Masters podcast. Before
Meg Bear is the former President of SAP SuccessFactors, where she led a global 4,000+ person business past $2.5B in revenue with double-digit YoY growth. Before SAP, she spent two decades building enterprise software at
Pablo Solare is the founder and CEO of Sprightful, a tech-enabled solar company he's been running for 10 years with just 4 humans and what he calls "hundreds" of AI agents. He relocated his family from Miami to Santa Cru
Stephen Banbury is VP of Marketing at ClearlyRated and has spent 20+ years leading marketing teams at enterprise companies including McAfee, Symantec, and Reputation. He's scaled teams from small nimble groups to organiz
Ryan Barry is the CEO of Appcues, a user engagement platform serving over 1,400 technology businesses worldwide. Before taking the helm at Appcues in March 2025, Ryan spent nearly 11 years at Zappi, co-authoring the best
Annmarie Neal has spent 20+ years as Chief Talent Officer at Cisco, First Data, and Hellman & Friedman where she achieved an 85% success rate across 20+ CEO transitions. Now as Chief People Officer at Zendesk, she's tran
Juan Betancourt spent a decade placing C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies through Korn Ferry and Heidrick & Struggles, then discovered everything he knew about hiring was wrong for startups. In this episode, the
Mor Assouline quit his first cold calling job within one hour, then avoided sales for three years. Today, as a 3X VP of Sales and founder of FDTC, he trains B2B SaaS reps to hit 50%+ demo close rates month over month. In
Travis Mariea built Flxpoint into a powerhouse automation platform serving 300+ e-commerce businesses but the real unlock wasn't the tech. In this episode, he reveals how he slashed onboarding time from 90 days to 14 day
Travis Mariea built Flxpoint into a powerhouse automation platform serving 300+ e-commerce businesses but the real unlock wasn't the tech. In this episode, he reveals how he slashed onboarding time from 90 days to 14 day
Alina Vandenberghe sold her house with her husband to bootstrap Chili Piper in 2016 and built a culture so magnetic that recruiters offering double the salary can't poach her people. In this episode, the co-founder and c
Rand Fishkin built Moz into a $30M revenue company with 130 employees, then walked away after 17 years of board conflicts and a battle with depression. Today, as co-founder of SparkToro, he runs a profitable company with
Ryan Farley scaled LawnStarter to over 3,000 cities, but his biggest challenge wasn't operations, it was talent. In this episode, Ryan reveals the "Who" methodology and Top grading frameworks that allowed him to hire sen
Steve Phillips
author of Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else? · Zappi
1 appearance on this show
Juan Betancourt
CEO · Humantelligence
1 appearance on this show
Alina Vandenberghe
co-founder and co-CEO of Chili Piper · Chili Piper
1 appearance on this show
Rand Fishkin
Serial entrepreneur and SEO expert · SparkToro
1 appearance on this show
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