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Chad: There was a Del Taco next door. Joel: Del Taco and a Jersey Mike's at some point. Joel: Yeah, they have track records of taking companies public or cashing out sort of big deals. It feels more like, let's try to get to a point where we can get a top notch CEO. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Joel: Alright, gang, we are back. They made that deal last year when they needed those motherfuckers in the seats.

They got this deal, which is great. And look at what we have to deal with today. Fuckers. This doesn't even feel half baked. It doesn't feel like a plan at all. The Chad (47:25.688) I feel ya. Please God make this feel go, please God make this putt, please God.

Chad (06:57.867) and you started talking about some of the startups that you actually deal with in many And I would say it's an even bigger problem in our local specialism around here in Cambridge is deep Now, most of the founders that we talk to, they feel like they had a problem coming in. But in this case, Mike, I've got some good feeling about this because the way that they're thinking about So I mean, these little things matter. you do, you deal with teams, you deal with the product, the branding

I remember the deal with Simply Hired. Do you that where they partnered with Resume Rabbit? I think, it just feels like so many trends are going against the traditional resume. Cause if you tell me this was a five or six kind of deal, then I might believe it. Yeah. numbers than maybe the employment industry is used to dealing with. with, you know, five star ratings, you're dealing with reviews, something like this, you're dealing

Tyler Weeks: Yeah, actually, that's where I feel like one of the... I still feel like a rookie in the HR world and I'm going to use the new guy card for 20 years. You can automate somebody's work or part of it, they will feel just as busy. So what I've started to say is that I feel like the place to innovate and the place that I really see Lazy apply, deep fakes.

Chad: I'm not feeling that. I don't know what your problem is. You're hopefully not dealing with any kind of trials and tribulations. SFX: Can you feel the tension... Chad: Yes. SFX: In the air right now? Joel: Oh, I can feel it. I can feel it all the way down in my plum. I stuck it to Jasper, which makes me feel good.

Feel free... 0:00:57.1 Chad Sowash: Give it up. Come on. And so I think that it feels super unsettling for the team. And so now I'm feeling the real pain of like, oh God. And you can really feel being back at sort of square one. The pain is super real. 0:36:28.0 Vijay Mani: So you cannot just rely on intuition and gut feel.

Chad (10:24.062) Okay. qualified individuals, how do you deem? Because fair enough because what because we're dealing in cryptocurrency and you can deal in fractional For all the reasons that we can get to that we all know is wrong with the market in general, they feel How you feel? Josh Sklut (34:57.09) Understood. All good. Feel free to download the app. We have 95,000 followers on X, so feel free to jump on X.

And so what I feel does is we try to help with mental resilience. And this year we have a $2.2 million contract to help soldiers and kind of deal with stress and then It's awful, lonely people feel isolated, people feel anxious. with stress so that, you know, they feel comfortable with it and they can actually deal with it at home How do you feel? Trung (32m 28s): I feel good. I feel good. Yeah.

Why deal with TSA cavity searches when you can sip wine on grandma’s terrace in Lisbon? No big deal. Joel (10:24.223) Sam Canadian. Lieven (10:26.765) Canadian is fine. So it feels like the 92 million is a necessary adjustment because if they don't invest now, they're, And I think I always have mixed feelings with those agents. Pepper spot of where maybe rippling and deal worth the Lieven (23:25.773) Mm-hmm.

That's right after receiving 20 Emmy nominations, four wins and most definitely the surprise feel good Ted Lasso has struck a deal with England's premier league that will allow the series to use premier league Some highlights, UK leads the continent with 16 deals closed. Germany second with seven deals. The rest of the continent represented 14 other deals. good PR and why not in Europe, where by the way, we have a ton of lawsuits and antitrust issues to deal

learn some stuff that, a little bit outside of where I normally play, you know, more finance, more deals And when you compare them and the problem is there's nobody else the size of a deed. You get rejected by a thousand. or 5000 or 50 ,000, you just feel like a loser. That's a big deal because verified people is kind of the future. I mean, it feels like we're having a conversation from the early 2000s, right?

Some people I'm sure will vote because deep inside they are against Islam or against whatever, but they And I thought the second party, VVD it's called, was going to make a deal with Geert Wilders' party. And the deal could be Geert Wilders would say, I'm going to to settle down a bit and I'm going to be I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Lieven: Manuel. Okay, please go on. That's a luxury you didn't have to deal with when money was free. Now you have to deal with it.

Deep fakes. Avatars. Google's Bard. I mean, we did see IBM with Deep Blue beat, you know, chess Grand Master, Gary Kasparov in '97, then So if you're talking to your surgeon, right, your surgeon can go very, very deep domain specific, let's From my perspective, this technology and deep fakes and sounding like the CEO, right? Because they feel that's part of the experience if you're applying for Tesla and they wanna use their

We need a little deep dive into the yoga vegans. Joel (1m 5s): He's a complex person. What are you dealing with today? And so what I truly believe is one of the hardest things for companies to deal with right now is how craft of sourcing or recruiting, but I also want them to have high business acumen, have, you know, deep I would think that work from home would help you scale significantly, but maybe you feel differently.

Lieven: First one is, I'm feeling the LinkedIn love for the first time. a feeling we could buy it for a bargain and we can make more out of it afterwards. Because there's so much technical debt that Monster was dealing with personally. Monster's been around for 20 plus, so I mean, it was dealing with a lot. A very intelligent prompt, which sure makes me feel better...

of don't like this deal. Are you buyer or seller of this deal. What's going on? I feel like we're on a game show. Joel (38m 30s): Chad, you know, I love a good deal. Right. You know, I love a good, good deal on some egg slippers.

I mean, we really didn't talk to them much to begin with because like guy that you know, I was dealing we're gonna let you do the business, we're just gonna sort of be there to support and then when the deal was signed, and what kind of due diligence did you do before the deal that may have surprised you? Joel Cheesman (18:37.873) Did you feel ambushed? Joel Cheesman (31:33.447) And you mentioned the gut feeling.

In coming up through the military, how much did you actually have to deal with personnel, HR, those types Chad: Oh, it feels like the boomers, we were raised by boomers, so it feels like that's kind of like General Honoré: We'll deal with that. Chad: Yeah. I ain't feeling good today. I'm seeing fucking little elephants floating around in the air. General Honoré: Man, I'm not feeling well. I feel like I wanna hurt myself. Oh man.

Now you all know what I have to deal with. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you guys all know about Panda with 30,000, employees deep. We're global now. Nobody feels good. And that's why I feel like AI is gonna truly help. Joel: And feel free to name names [laughter] Jessica Swank: I like being provocative.

Joel Cheesman (03:45.526) I feel bad for people that slip on the stairs because that is the angle and It's a Thanksgiving flick, but you know, it still has the holiday feel good feelings. She was even on our little show. so if you want to check the archives, feel free, feel free to do that So the deal didn't happen, but I, we, we became sort of quick friends and kept in touch. Maureen Clough (38:17.774) Seriously, dude, it makes me feel like it can do anything though.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed along with Greenhouse Lever, enjoyed a "cool kids" and I'm using , if this was on the clearance track or not, I'm betting, they would all say, yeah, we sold it at a deep ATS is deem to be in a potential squeeze here, right? I don't know if you're feeling a little heat from the boiling water, but, Rocky might be getting a little Chick-fil-A take some orders and deal with customers for a fried chicken meal.

Joel Cheesman (02:18.111) It feels like it is. yeah. So if you have any it Italian tips, either Chad or anyone out there, feel free to hit me up. we're doing All right, I'll do I'll deal with the pasta and the linguini or whatever. Joel Cheesman (34:13.751) Tell us how you really feel, Chad. You're on a roll. deal that's advantageous for us.

listening in podcast land, and you are attracting the wrong candidates, and we know you are, or you feel Max: And then you can decide whether you want to do deep screening or not, depending But actually, 90% of our deals we end up doing them with a sourcing manager and a recruitment manager So, bring the people in and then do the deep screening, and the profile analysis. You feel like there's personality.

with it, and because our guiding principle is about engaging with candidates in a way that makes them feel comfortable, on a platform they feel comfortable with, and on their time, we're seeing, again, universal Eric: When you're dealing with someone in text, they're not just going to say We've got a deep partnership with Bullhorn. We work seamlessly with these so that we have a deep API integration, to be able to not only be able

Tune in for a deep dive into the trenches of workforce talk. This is real deal, in the trenches workforce talk here, Josh. I hope you're ready. You're dealing with people who have a myriad of difficulties from preventative care to, you know, the Maybe it was more on chemistry, but I really want people to feel it more than I want to holler.

[laughter] SFX: Can you feel the tension in the air right now? I know. I can feel it. I can feel it all the way down in my plums. Joel: That's right. private equity or company that bought this deal. Joel: Alice Spring chicken to make me feel better about myself. So big fucking deal.

And I don't like the, it just feels a bit creepy, know, invasion of privacy. That's just me. Feels kind of like garden variety, We need to do something. Let's let's lay off some people. It just feels like companies, and this is a little bit of theme of the show. Emi (52:02.273) Yeah send out more feelings. Emi (52:12.332) No. Like just give me a r I'm kinda I feel kind of embarrassed I'm there anyway.

This is what we deal with. Keith Hulen: As far as like dealing against competitors like... Secondarily, they are hard to get on the phone to make a deal, any of that shit, right? We feel pretty good about raising 8-10 million dollars in the coming six months. Ultimately, four years into this, it just it feels like a knife in a gunfight.

Joel Cheesman (02:14.364) Feel free to dumb it down, Jim. Feel free to like lower the, yeah. This feels different though. And it feels like that's too. It's like, they understand? That's a big deal. This does not feel different.

And it's not that I feel like the universal design is short-sighted. And I feel like it's a best attempt in the time, wherever it's... I also feel like we should be spending a great deal of time in organizational redesign, which is where Torin Ellis: Not feel like, I know it is. Because I signed six-figure deals. Joel: That's great. So here's the deal though.

On this week's podcast, Eightfold AI and Beamery play dueling valuations, following some massive funding With Sovren, matching isn't some frustrating "black box, trust us, it's magic, one shot deal" SOVREN I'm dealing with a sick four-year-old. So what round is this? with their customers or dealing with their patients, that they're good. Like I can't let you back in the ran the deal. Like I, I gotta fire you. Like, I wish you luck.

Because why deal with human drama when you can have an algorithm do the job? Feel free to call me Cupid because I have the killer option for that special someone. Maybe they're great deals. I feel like the fear now is the job ain't coming back. And I think really just feel like, well, when it hits me and it happens to me, I'll deal with it then

Jason Radisson: I think one of the biggest things we struggled with was dealing with airports, and we And we got participation down, so we got less workers to deal with, we've got to make more of the workers Well, surge pricing, if you're dealing with 1099s, it's surge pricing, if you're dealing with your own Other than that, it really feels like Movo is skating to the puck. How do you feel? Jason Radisson: Thanks guys, it's been awesome, yeah.

Patti Tabris: They feel rewarded. They feel excited about the company. It feels like a Patagonia type brand that you stay the course. And I don't know where it's gonna land, but I have a feeling it's gonna land in. Chad, shit's getting deep, deep at Amazon. 'Cause the robots can't feel yet.

I feel like I'm substitute cheese today. I'm that substance that no one knows exactly what it is. Chad (14m 34s): And what what I mean about that is it's starting to feel more robotic in PE than human The brand must feel more human, less robotic. Well you guys, you are dealing over at Paradox, you're dealing with franchises now. with FTX, which I think existed for 20 minutes when they did that deal.

listening in podcast land and you are attracting the wrong candidates, and we know you are, or you feel I think a lot of his companies obviously deal with it from the other end of the stick, in the fact that SBOJ is just focused on dealing with recruiters. Applications, recruiters, nothing else. There's a whole ownership algorithm that deals with that. So there's a whole complicated algorithm that deals with that.

And we kind of feel that day to day, but you've kind of like broken it down into different archetypes And so I feel like that's what happened here. Being able to deal with financial people when we're worried about like our Chad (11:02.853) legal. Like the more specialized you are in that business, I feel like the more effective you're gonna be at And I feel like HR is a whole lot of barrel apples where they've been around a long time.

there was a time with, you know, when there were three networks and the Olympics were a huge, huge deal And now I feel like, so one of the stories that, stuck out with me was the Netherlands, I think recently Veritone buys Pandologic for 150 million in a cash and stock deal. The said deal is valued at three, about three times, Pandologic expected 21 gap revenues. or most of these deals.

Three guys who feel totally violated by all the European privacy laws, and we kinda like it. I feel like there'll be a few Americans there. But it is a cool deal. These countries get really fired up, as they normally do. Joel: Please feel free to not because it'd make for a great show. But otherwise... To me, it feels warm and fuzzy, it feels... The connection is there, and it's real.

Joel (01:46.952) downtown Dallas Dallas Dallas feels like the road warrior without the apocalypse or I have three main thoughts on the Zoom bright hire deal. potential buyer of your service as possible. we knew from our relationship with Paradox that they were deep And I really feel like, especially when we're talking about these are infrastructure companies. But I think you'll see more of that in the future just because the deals are there to be made.

Because almost 90 % of people who menstruate feel anxiety around their period at work, and 80 % feel Because almost 90 % of people who menstruate feel anxiety around their period at work, and 80 % feel Now everyone knows that you're not feeling well. You're really good about talking about the how I feel as a woman. How do you feel? Hilla Hascalovici (35:39.16) Thank you. I feel great.

Joel (7m 44s): Does it feel like a bridge, a bridge fund, a bridge? Joel (19m 23s): Both of these companies are in New York, so it feels a little bit like the LA deal a So interesting deal. I feel like it was on the cheap. Joel (21m 15s): So this deal is really kind of strange. It feels like, oh, it was on the cheap. It doesn't feel like a round peg in a round hole.

She closed the deal. It was done. And she is soon to be Holly Bricker. Chad (7m 8s): Very nice. What better way to feel the love? What better way to feel the love? Facebook has bigger issues to deal about a deal with which we'll get to in a second. It feels like they have to at this point, so they're looking for alternatives. About now to see what to see, what kind of deal they can make.

Lieven (01:04.622) Yeah Chad Sowash (01:09.299) I feel good. Lieven (06:50.464) I'm feeling safer, feeling safer already. Yeah. It's gonna be a long year. feel like it's. That makes me feel better. I like freestyle. We actually feel we need a level playing field.

Employees get to opt in to the deal that they know that they're going to get there. Not to mention, what it feels like is that we're working more toward time as opposed to the objectives It just feels like Joel (12:25.811) Mm-hmm. Dr. A lot of companies came to market with a lot of money raised deal, remote oyster, velocity global. Joel (38:29.843) And that's all we have for the Feel Good podcast of the year, everybody.

We don't want it to feel like it's a bot talking to them. So is that really a big deal, whether it sounds like a bot or not, just getting connection and engagement I think we would have to think very cautiously about how we would approach it so that it feels authentic When you come to Raising Cane's, the experience should feel different. Joel: Sounds like a deal. Sounds like a deal. JD Cummings: Yeah.

It feels like a older city, but not in a way that's cool, in a way that like, alright, I can't get gigabit We all had our own thing that we were dealing with in life, and they really encouraged me to go back to say too, it's hard for me to tell you exactly all the things that she was working through and the feelings and emotions, and thoughts that she was dealing with to see her son go through this, go like drop outta

It ain't deep seek, but you have a chance. got a chance. Tie an anchor to it because you should throw it in the deep and try again. That's firing squad. The overwhelming feeling that came from these customers is that they didn't know how to hire. It completely looks and feels like their system. Hannah, take a deep breath. You are done with the Q &A portion of the firing squad.

Can you feel the tension in the air right now? I know. I can feel it all the way down in my plums. You feel like you're in Helsinki, you feel like you need to warm up and you need a little kabu. We're going to have to restructure how we deal with the border, how we deal with taxes, what jobs actually So I feel like. This this... Like this thing keeps building. It's flipping burgers. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.