Hey, everybody, it's Kai.

Rizdahl. Thanks for downloading this episode of the Corner Office podcast.

Another new one for you today.

This time, Robert Holman, the co-founder and CEO of Glass Door, one of the world's biggest job and recruiting sites, probably best known as the site where you can rate your employer and get salary

information from different companies. Before co-founded in Glassdoor, though, Robert was the president

of Hotwire, the discount travel site. He started as a software engineer at Microsoft.

We're expecting you. Won't you have a seat? Ready to go to work?

Robert Homan, welcome to the program.

Hi, Kai.

Thanks for having me.

So 10 years ago, you've been through Microsoft, you've been through Hotwire, Expedia, all those companies, and you decided to do this.

Why?

Well, it was because we thought that where you go to work is probably one of the most important decisions that you make in your life.

And how much you get paid for it really matters to, you know, most people.

And before Glass Door, maybe you were lucky enough to know one person you could ask what it was like to work at a company you were interviewing at.

But, like, that's a sample of one. And we felt like, yet it's all in people's heads walking around. We felt like, man,

if we could build a safe place where everyone could talk about what's great about their

workplaces and what needs work and also tell people how much they make, that would be an

incredible resource to job seekers

trying to figure out where to go to work. So could we do that? And that's how Glass Door was born.

What was it about salary, right? Why is that the, you know, the nugget there?

Well, in 2007, when we started building this, you have to remember there was really poor

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