S5 Bonus: Josh Millet, Criteria

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Josh Millet's journey to tech was quite circuitous. He spent most of his 20's doing a PhD in French medieval history, with his plan being a professor in college. His specific time period was the era around Joan of Arc. Upon graduating, he realized that the job market for French medieval history professors wasn't super hot... and he ended up doing a startup with some of his friends from school - a small test prep company, which ended up being sold with 5 employees onboard. He's married with 2 boys, living in Los Angeles. With two boys, he mentioned that there is a lot of referring... and he feels like an adjudicator and mediator most of the time. After getting involved in the hiring process at his prior company, he felt the pain of knowing when an interview was over early on. He thought, there has to be a way to use data and tech to make the process more efficient. This is the creation story of Criteria. 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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0:00.0	Besides the platform that our customers use, there are these assessments that require a separate development process that organizational psychologists follow when they're like developing and validating assessments.
0:12.0	So there were kind of two sides to it originally.
0:15.0	But the platform originally took about nine months to create. There were four of us in the beginning
0:20.9	and only one engineer.
0:24.0	He built the whole product.
0:26.0	Was really pretty minimal.
0:27.9	So had just a few assessments,
0:30.3	not very feature rich.
0:32.5	Our big goal at the time was to get something out
0:35.5	that was really accessible and easy to use.
0:39.0	I'm Josh Millett. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Criteria.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Lapart,
1:04.2	and today how Josh Millett built the tools to help companies use data
1:09.2	to make better of hiring decisions.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:19.6	Josh Millett's journey to tech was quite circuitous.
1:22.6	He spent most of his 20s doing a PhD in French medieval history,
1:26.6	with his plan to be a professor in
1:28.6	college. His specific time period of study was the era around Joan of Arc. Upon graduating,
1:34.8	he realized that the job market for French medieval history professors wasn't super hot,
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