Recruit Rockstars 298: How This Early-Stage VC Spots Talent

Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 4:14 p.m.

Based in Menlo Park, Unusual Ventures invests in Seed & Series A startups. Their focus in enterprise & consumer tech.

Unusual has an ‘unusual’ secret weapon.

His name is Jon Volk, and he’s Director of Talent at Unusual. He spots talent for the fund & their portfolio companies.

He’s uniquely qualified, as a former recruiter at Google, Amazon, and AppDynamics.

Venture Capital is all about pattern recognition, even when it comes to hiring. Fortunately, I persuaded Jon to invest 20 minutes sharing his best practices & lessons learned.