#76 - Steve Bartel | Founder & CEO of Gem & Author of startuphiring101.com

Steve is the Founder & CEO of Gem. Gem is the leading all-in-one recruiting platform powered by AI: ATS + CRM + Sourcing + Analytics + Scheduling + Talent Marketing & Events + Career Site. talent marketing, and career site management. Before Gem, he was an early engineer at Dropbox, where he quickly rose to lead several engineering teams, focusing heavily on recruiting and scaling the company's talent acquisition strategy.

As Dropbox grew from 25 to 1,500 employees, Steve observed a paradigm shift in recruiting: companies started proactively seeking top talent, similar to how sales and marketing teams don't just wait for customers to come to them. This approach required a unified system to track and manage pre-application recruiting efforts, which didn't exist at the time, so he built Gem.

Shownotes

02:40 - Introduction to Gem
04:23 - The Lightbulb Moment for Gem
07:05 - A Breakthrough for the Company
10:54 - From Sourcing to an All-in-One Platform
20:01 - The Role of AI in Recruitment

Links

Guest Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-bartel/

Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
Thomas e-mail: [email protected]
pplwise: https://pplwise.com/