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John Kim, CEO and co-founder of Paraform, shares his unconventional path from robotics engineering to building an AI-powered recruiting platform that's facilitated 1,000+ hires for companies like Palantir, Shopify, and Coinbase.

Why a health scare at 18 changed his perspective on life timelines
How COVID lockdowns pushed him from robotics to his first startup
The co-working space discovery that led to Paraform
Why startups were willing to pay $30K+ to solve hiring problems
The contrarian approach: starting with recruiters, not companies
Going from 1 hire per month to multiple hires daily
Why great talent will never be commoditized by AI

Chapters:
0:00 - Growing up moving every 2-3 years
0:45 - Health scare that changed everything
1:30 - First company during COVID & acquisition at 21
2:15 - Moving to San Francisco & starting Paraform
2:45 - The co-working space discovery
3:30 - What Paraform does (AI recruiting platform)
4:15 - Why focusing on recruiters is contrarian
4:45 - The "Rule of 3 and 10" - systems that scale
5:50 - Tools that didn't break while scaling

About Paraform:
Paraform enables companies to access on-demand specialized recruiters for any role while helping recruiters build sustainable independent businesses. Customers include Palantir, Shopify, Coinbase, Decagon, and Rippling.

The company went from making 1 hire per month (and $0 revenue for the first year) to facilitating 1,000+ total hires through their platform.

"I shouldn't live life based on the standard timeline everyone has. I thought about it in a very compressed way."

"AI will commoditize data and compute, but the last thing it will commoditize—and possibly never commoditize—is great talent."

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