Daniel Chait
9 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef
Daniel Chait (Greenhouse): Hiring's AI Doom Loop & Deepfakes
Greenhouse co-founder and CEO Daniel Chait explains how the hiring platform powers job applications for 7,000 companies (~1m daily users) and recounts 'shedding the armor' after 15 years servicing Wall Street. He unpacks the AI doom loop — AI-polished resumes and mass auto-applying leaving recruiters with 3.5x more applications — and Greenhouse's response: the Real Talent suite with ID verification, fraud detection against deepfakes and North Korean infiltration rings, AI triage, and the My Dream Job feature that converts ~5x better. He also advises entry-level candidates to become experts in new tools like Claude Code and warns that technology tends to concentrate value.
6 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef
Daniel Chait, Greenhouse: Fixing the AI Hiring Doom Loop
Greenhouse co-founder and CEO Daniel Chait introduces the hiring platform and unpacks his 2015 "shedding the armor" quote about leaving Wall Street's "decibelocracy" for tech. He explains the AI "doom loop" — AI-polished resumes, mass applications, and recruiter inboxes up roughly 3.5x — plus the entry-level squeeze and the opportunity for high-agency candidates to become the AI expert. He also details the Real Talent Suite's ID verification and fraud signals against deepfakes and North Korean fake-worker infiltration, the arms race with interview-cheating tools, and the My Dream Job feature that converts ~5x to restore human signal amid "AI slop."