The Gradience

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.

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 comput

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 Lea

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 Al

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.

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.

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,

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.

As a founder, your company's overall success in the market is adversely impacted if you do not release products fast enough. Joining us this week to explore this topic is Jennifer Smith, Co-Founder of Scribe, a company with a mission to unleash know-how across teams, organizations, and communities. Scribe was founded in 2019 to provide an easier, more effective way to share what yo

Joining us this week to explore this topic is Jeff Winter, VP of Talent Acquisition at Chime, a financial technology company founded on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Chime partners with regional banks to design members' first financial products. This creates a more competitive market with better, lower-cost options for everyday Americans