A brief for Heads of People at venture-backed startups. Each issue takes one real problem in performance, comp, or hiring: what broke, the system that fixed it, and what changed afterwards.
LatestAI raised the floor and hid the ceiling.
By Owen Fleming, Head of People at a Series B fintech. I built the function from the ground up to 150+ people across the UK, US, Europe and Africa, and shipped 20+ tools to run it.
Two people got the same feedback note in the same week. The writing was clean and it said nothing.
3 min readI heard a lot of chat about the EU AI Act and hiring. Deadlines coming, serious fines, GDPR 2.0. Then the deadline got kicked down the road a bit.
3 min readChasing interview feedback was costing me hours every week. Now a bot does it, and it nudges the CEO the same as everyone else.
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