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 metrics to understand what great looks like. Always with an eye towards the future, we’ll keep you ...
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Metaviews is a podcast about the big picture and what comes next. As an open source intelligence agency, Metaviews is focused on the future while also grounded in the present. Hosted by Jesse Hirsh and featuring a diverse range of guests, the show looks at the collision of political economy, technology, culture, and society.
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The Future of Recruiting: Data, Agents & Real Efficiency with Metaview’s CEO Siadhal Magos
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1:04:27AI has exploded across recruitment, but most people still don’t know how to actually use it. So I sat down with Siadhal, CEO and Founder of Metaview, to unpack where AI is really going, what recruiters are getting wrong, and how data and agents will reshape the work we do. We talk note-takers, sourcing agents, proprietary data, trust, efficiency, a…
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Golden Nugget #95 | Creative BD That Cuts Through the Noise (with Lizzie)
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The Rebuild: Turning a £4M Crisis Into a Renewables Powerhouse with Matt Sykes
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1:19:15When Matt Sykes took over JD Ross Europe, he inherited a £4M ledger crisis, a merged brand that wasn’t working, and a team that needed a complete reset. In this episode, we walk through how that crisis forced a full pivot into renewables and how the business grew into a multi-country powerhouse across France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and bey…
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Golden Nugget #94 | How a £5.8M Recruitment Business Collapsed Almost Overnight with John Gaughan
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The real job of a recruiter? Just two things.
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35:45What makes someone “good”? If you ask Dan McCarthy, Talent Partner at Paradigm (the world’s largest crypto VC), it’s not what’s on their resume. After two decades in tech, he’s got sharp takes on evaluating talent, building elite networks, and why AI will disrupt recruiting less than most people think. In this episode, Nolan and Dan cover the minds…
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From Imposter Syndrome to Founder: Chelsea’s First Year Building Unify
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1:08:41Chelsea went from battling imposter syndrome to launching Unify, a values-led recruitment business built around trust, DEI, and genuine long-term relationships. In this episode, we walk through her first year as a founder, the wins, the mistakes, the investor partnership, and the pressure of building a business while still figuring it all out. You …
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Golden Nugget #93 | How Ethan Hall Scaled to £70K Weekly GP: The Contract Recruiter Masterclass
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GV’s Rhys Hughes on why hiring should actually be your last resort
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42:41Rhys Hughes has led talent at Adobe, Rubrik, and now GV—so when he talks about hiring, you listen. In this episode, Rhys joins Nolan to challenge conventional recruiting wisdom and lay out what actually works at the highest levels of hiring. From betting on internal talent to exposing the flaws in "time to hire," Rhys unpacks how world-class compan…
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In this crossover episode from HR Heretics, Metaview CEO Siadhal Magos joins Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich to demo Metaview's new autonomous AI Sourcing agent. They break down why AI-native sourcing tools are redefining what's possible in recruiting, how "promptless sourcing" creates magic from your hiring conversations, and why everyone from fo…
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Golden Nugget #92 | World-Class Basics: Liam Newton on the Systems and Standards of Top Billers
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From Reset to $6M: The Strategy, Standards, and Pivots That Rebuilt LHi Austin with Jack Eldridge
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1:08:59When Jack Eldridge landed in Austin, it wasn’t an LHi office, yet. Fast forward to today, and he’s built one of the group’s strongest US hubs, scaling from 5 recruiters to a $6M business. In this episode, we talk about leading through pivots, setting non-negotiables, and what it really takes to build a high-performing recruitment office from the gr…
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Talent Partner 2.0: VCs don’t want advice. They want hires.
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40:42Matt Stephenson, Head of Tech Talent at Bain Capital Ventures, joins Nolan to get real about what VC talent partners actually do—and what it really takes to hire the best in 2025. This one covers the whole ground game: VC strategy, comp wars, secondary equity, sourcing experiments, and why the best recruiters today are business partners first. In t…
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Golden Nugget #91 | From Zero to $15K Weekly GP: James Holder’s System for Scaling a Contract Book Fast
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From $1M Loss to $1M Profit: The Rebuild of Oscar US with Kevin Holt
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1:15:12After losing $1M in 2023, Oscar US faced tough decisions, office closures, rising costs, and leadership changes. In this episode, I sit down with Kevin Holt, President at Oscar US, to unpack how he turned it around, taking the business from a $1M loss to $1M profit. You can connect with Kevin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinholtusa/ --------…
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In this episode, Amber Weinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aperture, explains why most go-to-market leaders flop in interviews (hint: they don’t know how to tell their story), and why she ditches scorecards in favor of outcomes and cultural wiring. Her take? The best exec hires come from obsessively deep context—not checkbox criteria. You’…
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Golden Nugget #90 | The Hiring System That Built One of the World’s Most Investible Recruitment Firms with Oliver Cooke
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How Firing 60% of Clients Helped Ed Bray Build a $2M US Recruitment Business
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1:16:59When I sat down with Ed Bray, VP of Growth at Orama, he told me why cutting 60% of his clients was the best decision he ever made. In this episode, we unpack how that bold move transformed Orama’s US business from chaos to clarity, scaling to $2M with a leaner client base, a stronger delivery engine, and a “fewer, better” mindset. We also dive into…
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The next great recruiters will be grown, not hired
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43:45In this episode, Nolan sits down with Evan Connor, VP of Talent at Ambience, to unpack why the next generation of top recruiters won’t just be great at sourcing and pitching, they’ll be full-stack operators embedded in the business. You’ll learn: Why great recruiters are business operators first How to grow recruiting talent instead of waiting to h…
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Golden Nugget #89 | Everything You Need to Know About Taking Your Career to America with Sophie Reed
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What Michael Green Did Differently That Made His Startup Hit $700K in Year One
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1:06:38In this episode, I sit down with Michael Green, founder of Unico, to unpack what he did differently to make his startup hit $700K in its first year. We talk through the strategic pivots that doubled his average fee, how he built credibility fast in the US market, and the mindset shifts that helped him grow from solo founder to high-performing team …
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Golden Nugget #88 | The Recruiter Deal Box System with Dante Nino
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How to stop wasting your outbound at-bats
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42:02Recruiting top talent isn’t just hard, it’s a game of scarcity. In this episode, Chandler Martin shares how to operationalize talent density with predictive hiring, disciplined outbound, and ruthless clarity. He covers: Why indiscriminate outbound is killing your long-term pipeline The predictive hiring model Zocdoc uses to anchor hiring managers H…
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Inside Hubscale’s Growth Journey: Strategy, Culture & World-Class Talent with Elliot Fielding
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1:10:51In this episode, I sit down with Elliot Fielding, Co-Founder of Hubscale, to unpack how they’ve built one of the most high-performing recruitment businesses in cybersecurity. We dive into the strategy, culture, and hiring principles driving Hubscale’s rapid growth: from building their “Golden Circle” client strategy to creating a team that thrives …
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Personio's Fritz Singer on the hard-won lessons of global scaling
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35:58Personio’s VP of Talent, Fritz Singer, breaks down what it actually takes to scale teams globally—and the hard-won lessons he learned along the way. You’ll hear how Fritz: Scaled Personio’s team across 30+ countries, and 12+ nationalities Built a bar-raiser program with actual teeth Made internal mobility a business priority Learned why “context be…
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The Biggest Lessons from JobAdder’s Global Recruitment Benchmark Report (500+ Agencies Analysed)
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33:14Download Job Adders FREE Global Recruitment Agency Benchmarking Report: https://ter.li/72igwt -------------------------- In this episode, I was joined by James from Job Adder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespayne-cro/ -------------------------- Extra Stuff: Learn more about our online skills development platform Hector here: https://bit.ly/47hsax…
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72: Feeding Possibility: Open Innovation and Resilient Futures for Ontario’s Agri-Food System
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48:14In this episode, Jesse Hirsh explores how Ontario can lead the next era of agri-food innovation through openness, foresight, and resilience. Drawing on his keynote for the Agri-Food 2050 event, he argues that disruption is no longer a storm to weather but the environment we live in — and that trust, literacy, and community are our most vital infras…
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How To Win Big In The States | Live Podcast Austin Texas
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How to get inside the brain of your best interviewer
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29:41In this episode, Vercel's Head of Global Recruiting Ops,Viet Nguyen, and Nolan unpack a deceptively simple experiment that turned into a hiring cheat code: reverse-engineering the judgment of an A+ interviewer to level up everyone else. What started as a Friday night curiosity turned into a new framework for talent density, interviewer training, an…
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From Struggling Recruiter to Top Biller to Entrepreneur: The Hard Lessons From Liam’s Journey
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1:12:23In this episode, I sit down with Liam to unpack his journey from struggling recruiter to top biller and now entrepreneur in Dubai. Liam went from a tough first year in recruitment to billing £32.5K weekly GP at Opus, before taking the leap to start his own business. We dive into the hard lessons of year one as a founder, the reality of moving to Du…
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As a senior partner at Swing Search, Annie Wenzel has placed some of the most impactful GTM execs in tech—often before they were obvious bets. In this episode, she breaks down the playbook that consistently lands top 10% talent, even in a market full of fear, fatigue, and overpromising. This conversation is a masterclass in strategic recruiting: Wh…
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How Terry Payne Rebuilt Aspire From Administration to an 8-Figure Valuation & Employee-Owned Success Story
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1:05:48In this episode, I sit down with Terry Payne to unpack how he rebuilt Aspire from the brink of administration into an 8-figure, employee-owned success story. Terry shares what it was like to inherit a loss-making, headcount-heavy agency, lead it through survival mode during the pandemic, and transform it into a profitable, global business. We dive …
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