Episode 230: Joe Meyer, Founder & CEO of ExecThread; New York, NY, USA

Joe Meyer is a man on a mission to elevate the ease with which executives connect to opportunities. As founder and CEO of ExecThread, he has grown a platform that is transforming the executive job search game.

In this conversation, Joe shares the secrets behind ExecThread's success and discusses the challenges and triumphs of entrepreneurship.

• VIP Access to Career Opportunities: ExecThread serves nearly a million professionals with exclusive access to confidential career opportunities. From VP to C-suite, including board-level positions, ExecThread leverages a unique crowd-sourcing approach to unlock hidden career paths.
• Founding Philosophy: Joe reflects on the inspiration behind starting ExecThread. Frustrated with being approached only for opportunities aligned with his past experiences, he envisioned a community where executives could confidentially share opportunities beyond the recruiter's radar.
• Leveling the Playing Field: Joe explains the limitations of traditional networking and job boards and how ExecThread bridges the gap by connecting a vast network of professionals directly.
• Personal Branding for Executives: Under ExecThread's suite of services are services that support personal branding - an area Allison feels very strongly about.
• Words of Wisdom: Joe shares his leadership values, the hard lessons learned in entrepreneurship, and his evolving philosophy of success.

Joe Meyer is the Founder & CEO of ExecThread, a VC-backed crowdsourcing platform and premium job-sharing network that enables 450k+ professionals to access the “hidden job market”. ExecThread is the largest global aggregator of unpublished executive-level job opportunities.

Joe is a successful start-up CEO and operating executive at high-growth tech companies with a strong track record of recruiting teams, launching new products, raising venture capital, growing traffic, eliciting engagement, scaling revenue and achieving liquidity.

Joe was also cited as the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012 by Crain's New York Business, and was #9 on Business Insider's 2013 "Silicon Alley 100" list (as one of the Top 100 tech executives in NYC).

Connect with Joe:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExecThread

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/execthread

Connect with Allison:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/

Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com

Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO

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