S1 E6: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow the process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:08.3	That's d-evmountain.com. That's D-E-V-Mountain.com.
1:20.1	I was pretty much a nerd since as long as I can remember.
1:23.7	At Art, we are a technology company.
1:30.3	Every challenge is in the industry, we tackled it with technology first approach. It was our first time being managers. So you can imagine we made our own mistakes.
1:37.3	The day I don't learn anymore, I think it's probably not a good sign.
1:43.3	The most important was to hire great culture fit, especially on the humility side.
1:57.3	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
2:11.5	I'm your host, Noah Labart, and today how Jonathan Perretchen was introduced to the pains of background checks and decided to make it better with an API.
2:21.3	All this and more on Code Story.
2:25.3	Through a chance internship in L.A., Jonathan Perichin made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love
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