📶 Jake Barry & Kai Han (Co-Founders @ Pallet) on building recruiting marketplaces
The past, current, and future state of business recruiting, community-based marketing, and creating value through aggregation
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This week we had on Jake (@jjbarry17) and Kai (@hankai1998) from Pallet.
Pallet is building hiring infrastructure for communities and creators. We use it for our job board, we love the product, and we wanted to bring on their team to show them some love for helping us add value to this community.
In this talk, we cover:
The past, current, and future state of business recruiting
Community-based marketing
Creating value through aggregation
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