Jordan has spent the last decade building recruiting engines across the full arc of company stage — from pre-PMF seed startups to Fortune 500 operators. He joined a16z after leading talent at multiple portfolio companies, where he learned that the best hires come from narrow, obsessive systems — not broad nets.
At a16z he works with founders on the hard end of hiring: the first engineer, the first GTM leader, the re-org after Series B. He believes the best talent pages are the ones founders actually ship — not the ones marketers polish for six weeks.
He's obsessed with the idea that a portfolio should take ten minutes, not ten hours. Which is why he's building readme.speedrun in his spare time.
Outside work: running, analog film, and the occasional attempt at a decent espresso shot.
Embedded talent advisor across a portfolio of early-stage builders. Specialize in the first 20 hires and the executive bench.
Scaled eng + design hiring from ~80 to 600+. Owned the recruiting ops stack end-to-end.
Full-stack engineering hiring across infra, payments, and issuing. First recruiter on the global expansion org.
Terminal-chat portfolio builder. Talk to an AI for 10 minutes, get a portfolio + a job-match feed.
Internal tool for matching a16z portfolio roles to the talent network using embeddings + human-in-the-loop ranking.