The Blind Ambition with Jack Kelly

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The Blind Ambition with Jack Kelly provides a candid look into the top companies in business and tech. Go behind the scenes with industry and workplace leaders and explore work culture, what it takes to land a role at these companies, and how to build, scale and thrive in your career. Hosted by Jack Kelly and Rick Chen and presented by the professional social network Blind.

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Valerie Beaulieu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at The Adecco Group: Why You Need a 'Career Backpack'
Apr 24, 2024
Annette Stewart, Senior Director, U.S. Business Acceleration and Integration at RBC: How to Influence Executives
Apr 18, 2024
Ben Morss, Product Manager at Zocdoc: How to Land a Job at Google and Become a Product Manager
Apr 10, 2024
Ginnie Carlier, Americas Vice Chair, Talent at EY: Why You Need to Be More Adventurous in Your Career
Apr 03, 2024
Congressman Mark Takano: How the U.S. May Be Closer to a Four-Day Workweek Than Ever Before
Mar 27, 2024
Jack and Rick Take on Whether Glassdoor is Still Anonymous
Mar 22, 2024
Rick Chen, Senior Director, Head of Public Relations at Blind: How Grit Can Propel Your Career
Mar 20, 2024
Disha Patel, Head of Shopping Product at Cash App: The Importance of Finding Your Craft
Mar 13, 2024
Heather Inocencio, Founder and CEO of The Product Consult: Why Product Managers Fail
Mar 06, 2024
Jack Kelly, Founder and CEO of Compliance Search Group: How I Became a Wall Street Recruiter
Feb 28, 2024
Jack and Rick Take on Google's AI Mistakes and Nvidia's Million-Dollar Pay Packages
Feb 26, 2024
Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean: How to Become One of the Top 1% of Engineers at Google
Feb 21, 2024
Justin Zhu and Michelle Lee, Co-Founder and Counsel of Stand with Asian Americans: Making the Transition from Executive to Political Advocacy
Feb 14, 2024
Bonnie Dilber, Manager, Business Recruiting at Zapier: Counter-Intuitive Tips You Need to Know to Get Hired
Feb 07, 2024
Mark Dixon, Founder and CEO of IWG: The Future of Remote Work and the Workplace
Jan 31, 2024
Neil Dhar, Vice Chairman, Co-Head of Consulting at PwC: How to Assemble a Personal Board of Directors to Advance Your Career
Jan 26, 2024
Katya Laviolette, Chief People Officer at 1Password: How to Stand Out Among 12,000 Resumes
Jan 17, 2024
Michelle Gonzalez, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of M12: The Secret to Networking and Meeting the Most Influential People Out There
Jan 11, 2024
Gleb Yushin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Sila Nanotechnologies: The Importance of Working on Big Problems and How to Get Started
Jan 03, 2024
Jack Mardack, Co-Founder of Oyster: How I Created a Human-Centric Unicorn Startup as a B Corp
Dec 27, 2023
Amanda Richardson, CEO of CoderPad: How I Became CEO Just by Asking and Learning to Share What You Want
Dec 20, 2023
Amir Nathoo, Founder and CEO of Outschool: How a Blog Post Led to a $3 Billion Startup
Dec 13, 2023
Max Tagher, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Mercury: How to Enter a Field Without Prior Professional Experience
Dec 06, 2023
Lia Garvin, Former Team Operations and Organizational Effectiveness Lead at Google: Lessons From Big Tech You Can Use to Improve Your Performance
Nov 29, 2023
Ingrid De Clercq, Chief People Officer at Deliverect: An Inside Look into How Belgian and European Startups Recruit Talent
Nov 22, 2023
Jesse Tinsley, Former Recruiter at 23andMe: What Happens When the Recruiter You're Talking to Doesn't Actually Work at the Company?
Nov 15, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on 'Job GPT' and AI Bots That Apply for Jobs for You While You Sleep
Nov 09, 2023
Marcelo Lebre, President and Chief Technology Officer at Remote: Finding the Tipping Point for Your Entrepreneurship
Nov 08, 2023
Shirley Baumer, Director of Product Management at Monday.com: From Startup to IPO - What It's Like as the First Product Manager
Nov 01, 2023
Melanie Quandt, Former Recruiting Manager at Salesforce: The Inside Scoop to How Salesforce Hires Engineers and Experienced Professionals
Oct 26, 2023
Jake Leach, Chief Operating Officer at Dexcom: Unleashing Career Growth, Tips From a Top Medical Executive
Oct 18, 2023
Frank Calderoni, CEO of Velocity Global: A CEO's Guide to C-Suite Roles and Leadership Development
Oct 11, 2023
Erika Voss, Vice President, Engineering Platforms at Capital One Software: How to Break Into the Tech Industry With an Untraditional, Non-Technical Background
Oct 04, 2023
Donna Helphrey, Vice President, Talent at Go1: Everything You Want to Know About Recruiting From Someone Who Hired 1,800 People in One Year
Sep 27, 2023
Josh Owen, Chief Technology Officer at Flourish: From Wall Street Developer to Serial Startup CTO, Here's How He Did It
Sep 20, 2023
Andrew Duncan, CEO and Managing Partner at Infosys Consulting: Is It Always Bad News When Your Company Hires a Management Consulting Firm?
Sep 13, 2023
Jason Birmingham, Chief Technology Officer at Broadridge Financial: How to Find a Mentor and Why Executives Need One Too
Sep 06, 2023
Trent Henry, Global Vice Chair, Talent at EY: How to Develop the Skills to Succeed at EY and the Big Four and Beyond
Aug 30, 2023
Ariella Steinhorn and Amber Scorah, Co-Founders of Lioness: Everything You Wanted to Know About Whistleblowing and Workplace Misbehavior!
Aug 23, 2023
CJ Jouhal, Head of Engineering at Anchorage Digital: The Highs and Lows on the Journey to Becoming a CTO
Aug 16, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on the UPS Drivers That Will Soon Earn $170k
Aug 14, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on Google's $99/Night Hotel and the BS Behind the Return to the Office
Aug 11, 2023
Jonathan Dughi, Former Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon: What It's Like to Lead a Team at Amazon. Plus, Does Amazon Have a 'PIP Culture?'
Aug 09, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on the "Prestige" Meme on Blind: Does Prestige Matter? Can It Help You Get Jobs and Promotions?
Aug 04, 2023
Erin Faverty, Operating Partner at PeopleTech Partners: All Advisers Aren't Created Equal. Here's How to Tell the Good Ones from the Bad
Aug 02, 2023
Michael Kascsak, Former Head of Software Engineering Sourcing, North America at Google: Insider Secrets into Big Tech Recruiting
Jul 26, 2023
Larry Gadea, Founder and CEO of Envoy: The Role of Ambition in Professional Success
Jul 19, 2023
Michael Griffiths, Workforce Transformation Offering Leader at Deloitte: Why You Need to Develop Skills to Succeed in Today's Job Market
Jul 12, 2023
Mahe Bayireddi, Co-Founder and CEO of Phenom: How Employers Use AI to Find and Hire Job-Seekers
Jun 29, 2023
Pato O'Ward, IndyCar Racer at The Arrow McLaren Team: Everything You Want to Know About the Business and Compensation in Motor Sport
Jun 21, 2023
Brad Porter, Founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics: Why I Left Amazon to Launch a Robotics Startup
Jun 14, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on Elon Musk and His Rant About Remote Work and the Work-From-Home "Laptop Class"
Jun 09, 2023
Donald Knight, Chief People Officer at Greenhouse: How to Uncover a Company's Real Culture
Jun 07, 2023
Fredrik Johnsson, Owner and President of Race of Champions: Finding the Drive to Become an Entrepreneur
May 31, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on Declining Pay in the Tech Industry and How to Fight Back
May 26, 2023
Cai GoGwilt, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ironclad: How to Earn Trust in the Workplace
May 24, 2023
Ashwinder Ahluwalia, Former Head of Product Management at Google: The Ins-and-Outs of Working in Product at a Big Tech Company
May 16, 2023
Rod Adams, U.S. and Mexico Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Leader at PwC: How to Find a Mentor
May 10, 2023
Matt Fitzgerald, Chief Marketing Officer at Tend: What Makes for Good Marketing at a Startup or Challenger Brand?
May 03, 2023
Christine Deputy, Chief People Officer at Pinterest: How to Think About Promotions and Your Total Compensation
Apr 26, 2023
Shanee Ben-Zur, Chief Growth Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Crunchbase: How to Market Yourself in an Economic Downturn
Apr 19, 2023
Garima Sahai, Former Director, Engineering, Google Local at Google: What Google Was Like in the Early Days
Apr 12, 2023
Mark Sherman and Saad Siddiqui, Partners at Telstra Ventures: How International Venture Capital is Plotting the Future of Work
Apr 05, 2023
Andrew Seaman, Managing Editor at LinkedIn: Breaking Down What's Really Happening with the Job Market and Economy
Mar 29, 2023
Dan Schiappa, Chief Product Officer at Arctic Wolf: A Tried-and-true Blueprint for Mastery and Earning Leadership Roles
Mar 22, 2023
Cosmin Nicolaescu, Chief Technology Officer at Brex: How to Become a CTO of a Multibillion-dollar Startup in Only 10 Years
Mar 15, 2023
Oren Barzilai, Founder and CEO of EquityBee: Everything You Want to Know About Stock Options
Mar 10, 2023
Abakar Saidov, Founder and CEO of Beamery: How to Persevere When Things Get Tough
Mar 01, 2023
Eugene Zhang, Founding Partner at TSVC: What's the Deal with Venture Capital and Tech Right Now?
Feb 23, 2023
Tim Armandpour, Chief Technology Officer at PagerDuty: The Secret to Leveling up Your Career Faster
Feb 15, 2023
Jeanniey Walden, Former Global Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer at DailyPay: Tips to Building a Personal Brand
Feb 08, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on the Labor Market, Pay Cuts and Why Layoffs Might Be the Worst Thing a Company Can Do
Feb 06, 2023
AJ Cooper, Director of Hardware Engineering at Lyft: The Definitive Guide to Demonstrating Impact
Feb 01, 2023
Jeffrey Spector, President and Co-Founder of Karat: The Inside Scoop to Tech Job Interviews
Jan 25, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on the Big Tech Layoffs at Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and More
Jan 21, 2023
Jost Capito, Former CEO and Team Principal of Williams Racing: Leadership Principles from Formula One and the World of Sport
Jan 18, 2023
Jack and Rick Take on the Goldman Sachs Layoffs and the Possible 2023 Recession
Jan 15, 2023
Michal Pechoucek, Chief Technology Officer at Gen: Everything You Want to Know About AI
Jan 11, 2023
Blind Bytes: Jack Reveals Insider Tips About Working with Recruiters
Jan 09, 2023
Sagi Gidali, Chief Growth Officer at Perimeter 81: How Cybersecurity Works in the Tech Industry
Jan 04, 2023
Blind Bytes: Jack Reveals Insider Tips About Bouncing Back After Getting Laid Off
Dec 20, 2022
Matt Spitz, Vice President, Engineering at Vanta: Silicon Valley vs. Other Tech Hubs, Explained
Dec 14, 2022
Blind Bytes: Jack Reveals Insider Tips About "Career Cushioning"
Dec 12, 2022
Blind Bytes: Jack Reveals Insider Tips About the "Hidden Job Market"
Dec 10, 2022
Danielle Poonoosamy, Director, People and Culture at Alma: Why We All Need a Mental Health Break
Dec 07, 2022
Kelly Scheib, Chief People Officer at Crunchbase: How Your Pay Is Determined, Finally Revealed
Nov 30, 2022
Jack and Rick Take on Twitter: Is Elon Musk Right? #RIPTwitter
Nov 19, 2022
Jack and Rick Take on Layoffs: Is There More to Come After Amazon?
Nov 17, 2022
Alissa Schepisi, Executive Vice President, Employee Experience at Edelman: Why CEOs Are so Awkward on Zoom
Nov 16, 2022
Jack and Rick Take on Cryptocurrency: What Happened With FTX and Cryptocurrency?
Nov 15, 2022
Jack and Rick Take on the Metaverse: What Happened With the Meta Layoffs
Nov 10, 2022
William A. Adams, Former Technical Advisor to the CTO at Microsoft: How Did We Get to $400K Pay Packages in Tech? Will They Last?
Nov 09, 2022
Sean Flood, Managing Partner at EFO Ventures: Is Mobility Tech Dead?
Nov 02, 2022
Jonathan Salama, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Transfix: Why It Pays to Work on Internal Tools
Oct 26, 2022
Joe Apprendi, Founder and General Partner at Revel Partners: How to Assess a Startup Like a VC
Oct 19, 2022
Randy Kern, Chief Technology Officer at Marqeta: The Importance of Mastery and Understanding
Oct 12, 2022
Christine Park, Chief People Officer at Pantheon: What is HR Anyway?
Oct 05, 2022
Wayne Hu, Managing Director, Early Stage Venture at SignalFire: Everything You Wanted to Know About Venture Capital
Sep 28, 2022
Christine Spang, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Nylas: When It Makes Sense to Pivot Your Startup and Career
Sep 21, 2022
Zach Nunn, Founder and CEO at Living Corporate: Why Most Diversity and Inclusion Programs Are Scams
Sep 14, 2022
Jonathan Heiliger, Founder and General Partner at Vertex Ventures: The Winners to Pick in a Recession
Sep 07, 2022
Sean Kim, Chief Product Officer at Kajabi: What I Learned at TikTok and Amazon
Aug 31, 2022
Joe Gillespie, Former Head of Technical Recruiting at Robinhood: How Engineer Recruiting Really Works
Aug 24, 2022
Shailesh Kumar, Senior Vice President of Engineering at ClickUp: Should Productivity Apps Be Worth $1 Billion or More?
Aug 17, 2022
Gillian French, Expert in Residence at Workvivo: Everything You Want to Know About Layoffs
Aug 10, 2022
Christoph Fleischmann, Founder and CEO at Arthur Technologies: How I Became a Metaverse Entrepreneur
Aug 03, 2022
Matt McLarty, Global Field CTO at MuleSoft: The Secret to a Future-Proof Career in Tech
Jul 27, 2022
Ravi Swaminathan, Founder and CEO at TaskHuman: How to Find Different Entry Points in Tech
Jul 20, 2022
Morgan Teachworth, VP, Engineering and Supply Chain at Cisco Meraki: Why Proximity Matters in Tech
Jul 13, 2022
Gianna Scorsone, General Manager and Head of North America at Aircall: The Keys to an Impactful Career
Jul 06, 2022
Lewis Tuff, Vice President, Engineering at Blockchain.com: The Best Way to Start Your Web3 Career
Jun 29, 2022
Nick Bushak, Chief Technology Officer and President at Gem: Everything You Might Want to Know About Tech Recruiting
Jun 22, 2022
Radhika Malik, Principal at Dell Technologies Capital: How Far Off Is the Singularity?
Jun 15, 2022
Conrad Irwin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Superhuman: What It's Really Like As a Founder
Jun 08, 2022
Amit Matani, CEO at AngelList Talent: Silicon Valley From the First iPhone Apps to Today
Jun 01, 2022
Rod Barlow, Chief Technology Officer at Sidecar Health: Navigating the Career Jungle Gym
May 25, 2022
Dan Westgarth, Chief Operating Officer at Deel: The Future of Work is Remote and International
May 18, 2022
Maryanne Caughey, Chief People Officer at Notion: How to Get Hired at Notion
May 11, 2022
Fredrick 'Flee' Lee, Chief Security Officer at Gusto: From the South to Silicon Valley
May 05, 2022