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At Terminal, we honor our team members that go over and beyond to embody our values as Values Champions. We pool nominations before our quarterly kickoff all hands meetings and present the awards the winners. Beyond their public recognition, they get to pick out their own custom swag with our Values Champion logo. 💪 Our Champions help make Terminal a unique community and I'm always proud to hear the feedback they receive from the colleagues. 👏 Pleased to honor Corinne Plafker, our Customer Success Leader, Rajan Kooner, Lead Talent Partner, and Ana Rivera, People Ops Generalist. Well deserved!!! 🎉 They are looking AWESOME in their Values Champion gear! Excited to see who wins for next quarter!

Congratulations to the 2024 YC Top Companies! Since 2005, YC has funded over 4,500 startups, including many that have become household names. The companies on this year's list are collectively valued at $458B, with a combined $57.2B in total revenue generated in 2023. Here are some more facts about the YC Top Companies this year: 🔸 13 companies (27%) on the list have had an exit, 11 are publicly traded. 🔸 Together, these companies employ over 80k people. 🔸 Over 50% are headquartered in the Bay Area. 🔸 Over 90% were founded by 2 or more co-founders. Congrats to the founders who are making something people want!

Excited to share the Top Startup Agencies List Full post contains:  1️⃣ ‎Instructions for Founders on how to filter down the list to find the right Agency.  2️⃣ ‎Instructions for Agencies & Contract Recruiters on how to be invited to join the list 👇 . Plus, how to earn the “top endorsed” badge ✨  3️⃣ ‎Deets on how I built the list, determined “top endorsed”, and distribution plan. https://lnkd.in/g58tUZWr NOTE: this list is for Agencies specializing in Startups (Pre-seed, Seed, Series A). Many asked if I would create a similar list for folks that focus on Growth & Enterprise companies. Most of our 1000+ paying Gem customers are Growth/Enterprise companies, so I'm sure they'd find this valuable. LMK in the comments if you agree? ----- full post ----- Last week, I asked my network for a few recs for the best recruiting agencies that work w. startups. I was blown away by the amazing recs… 800+ comments in a few days 🤯 ‎ Originally, I planned to collect a ~dozen recs in a Notion doc for founders, but with two orders of magnitude more responses than expected, it was clear I need to think bigger if I was going to include everyone, while making it useful to founders. I wired up a Google Form → Zapier → Airtable to whip together a database of recs that would make it easy for founders to search & filter for what they need. I sent the form to anyone who had a public endorsement in the comment threads. As a founder, references are everything, so the endorsement piece was a key selection criteria. There were so many submissions, so I picked a dozen or so that had the most endorsements, and tagged them “top endorsed” ✨ ‎ For founders, the result is a list that allows you to:  1. Filter down by Stage, Function/Role, Level, Industry, and Location, to find the perfect agency for your needs.    2. See who’s “top endorsed”, as well as a list of recent placements.    3. See a short description + links to website / social / contact info to learn more. Here's where I plan to distribute the list:  - Here. To all the founders in my network.  - Startup Hiring 101, which gets thousands of views per month (link in comments)  - An upcoming post on how founders can collaborate with startup agencies (coming next week!)  - With Gem’s Free for Startups program of thousands of startups & every new founder that signs up (link in comments) 👇 ‎Did I miss anyone the first time? Want to be added? Want a “top endorsed” badge? 👇 ‎  1. Chime in in the comments and get a founder/peer to endorse you by commenting on that thread.  2. Connect with me, and lmk you want to be added in your connection request (so I can send you the form).  3. I've saved ~5-10 "top endorsed" slots for folks that get the most public endorsements on this thread. Comments from founders count most, then peers, then reactions. Finally, LMK in the comments if a similar Growth and/or Enterprise list would be helpful.

As we all know, it’s been a tumultuous past few years for folks in the talent acquisition and HR space, which is why we wanted to take some time to recognize them for their amazing efforts. So, we asked our community to send us the HR/TA leaders in their lives that are taking actionable steps to improving workplace culture and practices. 🎉 Then, we ranked the nominees based on their impact on their company and the industry and selected the top 25 to publish. 🎉 We present to you the top HR innovators of 2024... 1.) Casey Bailey 2.) Barb Bidan 3.) Michael Dowd 4.) Tina Givens, SHRM-CP 5.) David Gluck 6.) 🌈 Desiree Goldey 🌈 7.) Ashley Goldsmith 8.) Lauren Goodman 9.) Maisha Gray-Diggs (MGD) 10.) Rocki Howard 11.) Steve Kay 12.) Jeff Luttrell 13.) Tess Manderson 14.) Cheri Martin 15.) Becky McCullough 16.) Timothy McElhone 17.) Matthew Mitchell 18.) Greg Muccio 19.) Phillip Reese 20.) Pamela Rodas (She/Her) 21.) Elisa Sanders 22.) Debra Simmers 23.) Dalithia Smith, MBA, SPHR, CCP, SHRM-SCP 24.) Adrienne Sullivan 25.) Anissa Zabriskie Find their nominations here ➡ https://lnkd.in/gXvrVC6D. Congratulations to these TA/HR rockstars, and cheers to building innovative, inclusive workplaces in 2024 and beyond! #HRInnovators #TalentAcquisition #HR