Entrepreneurship 101

Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Steven Lu talking about being the Co-Founder & CEO @ Pin.com.

Steven Lu Exited startup founder now running one of the hottest AI Recruiting startups: Co-Found & CEO @ Pin.com - AI Recruiting & Sourcing Steven Lu has spent nearly a decade inside recruiting technology, on both the build side and the sell side. He's watched the same pattern repeat at every company he's touched: great recruiters get buried in low-value work, and the tools they pay for keep them there. He's now on his second act trying to fix it. He shows up to podcasts with specific patterns, hard numbers, and operator stories from inside the hiring funnel, not theory and not the usual AI hype cycle commentary. Background: - CEO and Co-Founder of Pin (pin.com), the highest-rated AI recruiting platform on G2 (4.8/5) - Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Interseller, the sourcing and outreach platform acquired by Greenhouse - Spent his post-exit years inside Greenhouse, watching how recruiting software actually gets adopted (and abandoned) at scale before leaving to start Pin - Raised a $3M seed led by Expa Ventures in December 2024 - Advisory bench includes Benjamin Mena (Elite Recruiter Podcast, 170K+ downloads), Brianna Rooney (Techees, acquired by Affirm), Rich Rosen (Forbes Top-50 Recruiters, 1,200+ placements), and Evan White (Purple Acorn Network) - Press: VentureBeat, Pulse2, and most of the major recruiting trade publications The numbers he can speak to (Pin's real customer data, not a deck): - 850M+ candidate profiles across professional networks, GitHub, Stack Overflow, patents, and academic publications - 14 days average time-to-fill - 12 hours a week saved per recruiter on sourcing and outreach combined - 5x better outreach response rates vs. industry averages - 83% candidate acceptance rate into customers' hiring pipelines - 90% reduction in manual sourcing time - 91% of users reduce or eliminate LinkedIn Recruiter spend after switching - 6x more diverse candidate pipelines Topics Steven can go deep on: Recruiting and talent acquisition - The post-LinkedIn-Recruiter stack: what TA teams are buying instead, and why 91% of Pin users walked away - Outbound vs inbound hiring, and why sourced candidates are 5x more likely to be hired than applicants - Why multi-source candidate data (GitHub, Stack Overflow, patents, publications) beats single-network sourcing for technical and niche roles - The agency vs in-house TA economics shift happening right now - What "good" looks like for time-to-fill, response rates, and recruiter capacity in 2026 - The future of the recruiter role: strategist vs operator, and which parts of the job AI is actually changing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Bo Short talking about being the Co-Founder & CEO, Base Molecular Resonance Technologies .

Bo Short Co-Founder & CEO, Base Molecular Resonance Technologies - Speaker to 1M+ People in 35 Countries. Published author and holder of 19 patents, Top 10 Most Influential Leadership Speakers of 2023 Bo Short is the Co-Founder and CEO of Base Molecular Resonance™ Technologies, a company advancing one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in the past 50 years. In less than 24 months, Bo and his team have transformed a revolutionary quantum physics discovery into a validated technology with 20 patent assets and a third-party valuation of $60.3 billion. BMRT’s technology can detect cancers, weapons, explosives, and every element on the periodic table. It is non-invasive, safer than Wi-Fi, and designed for mass-market affordability. A published author and holder of 19 revolutionary patents, Bo was named one of the 'Top 10 Most Influential Leadership Speakers of 2023,' cited alongside Jordan Peterson, Simon Sinek, Malcolm Gladwell, and John Maxwell. He has spoken in 35 countries to over one million people, addressing global brands and institutions including Harley-Davidson, John Hancock, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and the American Red Cross. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Mark Newsome talking about specializes in helping small to mid size business owners and service providers uncover and monetize.

Mark Newsome Lead generation specialist, Non traditional referral generation strategist As a featured guest on your show. Your audience will discover how to systematically create long term repeat customers. Even on a shoestring budget. And how to consistently out promote their big buck major competitors. For a fraction of the traditional upfront out of pocket cost. Plus consistently generate a ton of on and offline buzz All without major corporate backing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Lauren Cockerell talking about being the founder and president of Kwedar & Co.

Lauren Cockerell Public Relations and Marketing Expert for Growing Organizations Lauren Kwedar Cockerell is the founder and president of Kwedar & Co., a boutique strategic communications firm that helps business owners grow with clarity, confidence, and integrity. Her team provides both the thinking and doing behind thoughtful PR and marketing so clients can focus on building meaningful businesses without losing themselves in the process. At Kwedar & Co., Lauren works with values-driven entrepreneurs across industries like insurance, real estate, and manufacturing to uncover the stories that build trust, reputation, and long-term relevance. Beyond the firm, Lauren is a member of the Fort Worth Chamber board of directors, the immediate past board chair of the Foundation for the Young Women’s Leadership Academy of Fort Worth, and an EO Fort Worth Accelerator participant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Carol Clegg talking about small being s business coach specializing in accountability, mindset and marketing, partnering with midlife women.

Carol Clegg When was the last time you held space for YOU? Business Coach Simple strategies for clarity and more ease and flow Carol Clegg is an accountability and mental fitness coach who supports people navigating change — in life and business — and wanting to move forward in a way that feels more like themselves. Her work blends gentle accountability with mindset and mental fitness tools, helping clients move from feeling scattered or stuck into clarity, consistency, and steady, meaningful progress. With a background in marketing and as the founder of Classic Exec Marketing, Carol brings a practical, real-world perspective to her coaching, grounded in both experience and a deep understanding of what it takes to keep trying and showing up. Her approach has been shaped not only by her professional journey, but also by her personal experiences of loss, reinvention, and learning to trust life in a new way. This brings a calm, compassionate depth to the way she supports her clients. Carol is passionate about helping people create sustainable ways of working and living — where success is defined not just by achievement, but by alignment, balance, and self-trust. Originally from South Africa and now based in the USA, she works with clients around the world and hosts the podcast Connect Inspire Create, where she explores thoughtful conversations about life, growth, and what it means to move forward with intention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]