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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil iPadell, Editor-in-Chief of the Verge and Decoder

is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking to career karma CEO Rubin

Harris. It is a fascinating time to talk to someone in the business of helping people

get new jobs. We're still fully in the middle of the pandemic driven great resignation.

A record 4.5 million people quit their jobs in November of 2021 and it doesn't seem to

be slowing down. In the middle of all that, career karma is booming. The company's platform

helps job seekers identify potential new career paths, then it matches them with coding

boot camps and other training programs to help them on their way. Rubin and his team

just raised $40 million in Series B funding for a total of 52 million and it's launching

a live audio feature for job seekers to connect and talk about their career paths. So of

course I wanted to talk to Rubin about what he plans to do with that infusion of cash

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