John Kim’s AI startup has paid out over $50 million to human recruiters. While every other hiring platform races to replace them, Paraform bet the opposite direction, and 10x’d revenue in 2025 working with customers like Palantir, Rippling, and Decagon. In this interview, John opens up about: – Why AI is making hiring noisier, not faster: it now takes 5,000 cold emails to make a single engineering hire, up from 500 five years ago – The hospital visit at 18 that compressed his life timeline from 65 years down to 3 – The two failed pivots before they realized recruiters,…
Sunday, May 3
