In this episode of our How I AI series, Shiv Brodie (GTM recruiter at Metaview) walks us through the AI workflows she’s using day-to-day to source, engage, and assess top talent. She’s built a powerful system that gives her leverage at every step, and it’s surprisingly simple to replicate. In this episode, you’ll learn: How Shiv’s custom GPT turns a JD into sourcing gold Why she leans on Perplexity, not ChatGPT, for company intel How she uses Metaview snippets to level-up multi-touch outreach Th...
Jul 24, 2025•29 min•Ep. 14
This week, Nolan chats with Andy Pittman, VP of Talent at ShipBob—the e-commerce ops platform that’s built one of the most disciplined talent orgs out there. Andy unpacks how ShipBob sets a high bar for hiring and holds themselves accountable to it. He breaks down their dead-simple but powerful “Would you rehire them?” system for tracking quality of hire, why every backfill requires a business case, and how ShipBob uses internal mobility as a signal of recruiting success. You’ll also hear: Why e...
Jul 02, 2025•49 min•Ep. 13
Today we’re talking about what it really takes to excel in your career. Deepali Vyas—25-year executive recruiter and the internet’s most-followed voice in career advice—gives a no-fluff masterclass on how to advance professionally. From negotiating comp to navigating office politics to the art of visibility, Deepali gets into how careers really get built. You'll hear: Why salary is about leverage, not worth How visibility beats performance every time Why likability is a career accelerant—even if...
Jun 18, 2025•48 min•Ep. 12
This week, Nolan and Siadhal kick off a new “How I AI in recruiting” series where we’re going deep into real-life workflows with the recruiting pros actually getting leverage from AI on a daily basis. First up: Samy Aumar, People Systems Excellence Manager at Qonto. Samy gives us an inside look at some of the custom AI agents he and the Qonto team have built to get great work done, fast. He demos how they use Metaview and Dust (an AI agent builder) to go from intake calls to live job postings in...
Jun 12, 2025•34 min•Ep. 11
In this week's episode, Nolan chats with Amina Moinuddin Darwish, Global Head of Talent at Vercel—masters of vibe coding and one of today’s hottest AI companies. Amina gets into how Vercel is winning talent in the super competitive world of AI. She also gives an inside look at how Vercel evaluates recruiters based on the long-term impact of their hires and why CEO approval of hires is key to maintaining their talent density. You'll hear about how Vercel's mantra “iterate to greatness" plays out ...
May 29, 2025•43 min•Ep. 10
Gem co-founder & CEO Steve Bartel breaks down why a lot of startups actually hire the wrong kind of engineers and how to instead identify and attract product-minded technical talent. Steve and Nolan also dive into how AI is helping recruiting teams handle massive applicant influxes and personalize outreach at scale. Steve shares insider tips on how to leverage social proof without burning social cred when outbounding and how to avoid common startup hiring mistakes when recruiting without a t...
May 12, 2025•39 min•Ep. 9
“Talent 1.0 is about advice. Talent 2.0 is about doing.” Sam Price, Talent Partner at Audacious Ventures, leaves it all on the battlefield when it comes to fighting for seed-stage talent to join “force-of-nature” founders. In this episode, she drops her genius-level playbook for how to sell and close 10x candidates at the earliest stages of building, including how to: entice with the anti-sell, use reference calls to close instead of vet, win over the candidate’s spouse to win the deal, and so m...
May 02, 2025•40 min•Ep. 8
What happens when the “perfect candidate” turns out to be fake? In this episode, Nolan and Metaview co-founder Siadhal Magos unpack the rise of AI-powered candidate deepfakes and what it means for hiring processes. From bad actors trying to steal company data to AI candidates successfully getting hired, the pressure is on for recruiting teams to adapt fast. Nolan and Siadhal explore what’s working (and what’s not) when it comes to fighting back, and what it could mean for AI agents to become a l...
Apr 25, 2025•23 min•Ep. 7
What does it take to get “top talent in every seat"? Greg Garrison, VP of Talent at Coinbase, joins Nolan to break down how they’ve built one of the most high-performing cultures in tech. Greg shares how he spots top recruiters (hint: look for a competitive drive), why every Coinbase hire goes through CEO review, and how they build a hiring culture that’s always in service of talent density. Check out this episode on YouTube . To learn more about Metaview, the world's #1 AI scribe purpose-built ...
Apr 17, 2025•49 min•Ep. 6
In this episode of 10x Recruiting, Nolan sits down with sourcing OG Chris Adams —sourcer #1 at Uber, former Talent Partner at Atomic, and founder of TalentHerder—for a masterclass on modern sourcing. Chris dives into what most recruiters get wrong about calibration, why it's the most critical step in building an effective top-of-funnel, and how to avoid wasting weeks sourcing candidates your hiring manager won’t even want to meet. Chris breaks down: Why calibration is everything—and how to run i...
Apr 09, 2025•42 min•Ep. 5
What if your biggest hiring mistakes aren’t who you hire — but who you don’t? In this episode of 10x Recruiting, Arthur Matuszewski (Managing Partner at Carrara, ex-Bridgewater & Better) unpacks the high cost of false negatives in hiring — the exceptional people who slip through the cracks because they don’t fit the usual mold. He shares how Bridgewater tracked its “hiring anti-portfolio” to learn from the candidates they rejected who went on to do extraordinary things, and why your talent s...
Apr 02, 2025•47 min•Ep. 4
This week, we’re bringing you a special edition of 10x Recruiting live from the Transform conference in Las Vegas. From the Metaview booth, Nolan interviewed an epic lineup of talent leaders from companies like Affirm, Greenhouse, and more. Nolan and his guests cover everything from tactical tips on applying AI in hiring, to market insights on the talent that’s in-demand today, to real-talk on getting leadership buy-in. It’s an episode jam-packed with insights and practical takeaways. Check out ...
Mar 28, 2025•49 min•Ep. 3
In this episode, Nolan sits down with Thach Nguyen, a recruiting leader who’s made his mark across heavy hitters like Airbnb, Sword, & Google and now runs his own exec search firm, Plenty Search. They cover what recruiting can learn from sales, why incentives in recruiting are out of whack, and the power of finding undiscovered talent. Check out this episode on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@10x_Recruiting_pod To learn more about Metaview, the world's #1 AI scribe purpose-built for recru...
Mar 17, 2025•34 min•Ep. 2
In the first episode of 10x Recruiting, Nolan Church gets into it with Jordan Mazer, Head of Talent at speedrun, Andreessen Horowitz's early-stage gaming accelerator. Jordan, who also previously worked at industry giants like Amazon and Riot Games, shares his insights on what it takes to build a world-class interviewing culture and why achieving hiring excellence requires a cultural shift in how we think about interviewing. He also shares his lessons on the importance of building trust with hiri...
Mar 10, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1
The 10x Recruiting podcast is launching soon! Subscribe now to make sure you don't miss an episode. 10x Recruiting is the podcast from Metaview that brings you real, unfiltered conversations with today’s top talent leaders. In each episode, Nolan Church (former Carta CPO & DoorDash Head of Talent) and his guests will challenge popular thinking and spark new ideas about what it takes to build world-class teams. We’ll bring you actionable tactics you can actually put into practice now and real...
Feb 03, 2025•47 sec•Ep. 1
