Looking Beyond a Candidate’s Resume with Malcolm Burenstam Linder

Matt Preuss
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About Malcolm

Malcolm Burenstam Linder is the CEO and Co-founder of Alva Labs. The team at Alva Labs is creating a more fair and data-driven recruitment process. Malcolm joins us to break down his story and journey as a founder.

Episode Takeaways

A few key topics we hit on:

  • About Alva Labs and Malcolm
  • How Alva found their first customers
  • Using personal networks to find their first customers
  • Why founders need to be extremely diligent about their first hires
  • Why seeing a professional coach has been a gamechanger for him
  • Why everyone should look beyond a resume when hiring

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