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Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Steven Lu talking about being the Co-Founder & CEO @ Pin.com.
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- Entrepreneurship 101
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- Jun 13, 2026
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- 2000
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Summary
Steven Lu Exited startup founder now running one of the hottest AI Recruiting startups: Co-Found & CEO @ Pin.com - AI Recruiting & Sourcing Steven Lu has spent nearly a decade inside recruiting technology, on both the build side and the sell side. He's watched the same pattern repeat at every company he's touched: great recruiters get buried in low-value work, and the tools they pay for keep them there. He's now on his second act trying to fix it. He shows up to podcasts with specific patterns, hard numbers, and operator stories from inside the hiring funnel, not theory and not the usual AI hype cycle commentary. Background: - CEO and Co-Founder of Pin (pin.com), the highest-rated AI recruiting platform on G2 (4.8/5) - Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Interseller, the sourcing and outreach platform acquired by Greenhouse - Spent his post-exit years inside Greenhouse, watching how recruiting software actually gets adopted (and abandoned) at scale before leaving to start Pin - Raised a $3M seed led by Expa Ventures in December 2024 - Advisory bench includes Benjamin Mena (Elite Recruiter Podcast, 170K+ downloads), Brianna Rooney (Techees, acquired by Affirm), Rich Rosen (Forbes Top-50 Recruiters, 1,200+ placements), and Evan White (Purple Acorn Network) - Press: VentureBeat, Pulse2, and most of the major recruiting trade publications The numbers he can speak to (Pin's real customer data, not a deck): - 850M+ candidate profiles across professional networks, GitHub, Stack Overflow, patents, and academic publications - 14 days average time-to-fill - 12 hours a week saved per recruiter on sourcing and outreach combined - 5x better outreach response rates vs. industry averages - 83% candidate acceptance rate into customers' hiring pipelines - 90% reduction in manual sourcing…