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    Anthony Kline

    Anthony Kline

    Partner and Founding Team at The General Partnership. Investor in Arc, Chainlink, Finix, Nuro.ai, Sardine.ai, SendOwl, Sort.xyz, WorkOS. Early Stripe employee.

    Executive Recruiter San Francisco University of Califor...
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    About
    Achievements

    Stripe
    Joined as an early member of the talent team in an individual contributor role to recruit leaders to the engineering and product organization. Worked with Founders and SLT to identify and hire leaders for each new team across all organizations. Eventually stood up and led M&A Recruiting for Stripe.

    AppDirect
    Started and led recruiting for early stage startup from employee 1 to 600+ across nine offices around the globe. Also worked on four acquisitions from initial conversation through integrations. Grew the recruiting team from 0 to 10 people.

    Riviera
    Successfully identifying and hiring engineering and executive-level talent at the Bay Area's top venture-capital backed startups.

    Past Clients include:
    Adku (acquired), Apture (acquired), AppDirect, AngelList, BloomReach, Cloudera, Klout, Zendesk, Votizen (acquired), Groupon, Ancestry.com, DocuSign, WellnessFX, One Medical, Cloudscaling, Luvocracy,...and quite a few others you may or may not have heard about yet :)

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    Skills
    Start-Ups Venture Capital Career-Path Development
    Locations
    San Francisco Silicon Valley
     
    Experience
    Stripe
    Stripe
    Talent + M&A 2016 - 2019 (about 3 years)
    Help Stripe fill their hardest-to-hire positions, and build teams from scratch. Working closely with the executive team, I designed, developed and scaled hiring for engineering... more leadershi, security, and executive hires.

    At some point, I also started working in M&A, and co-designed an acquihire and acquisitions playbook with corporate development. This included sourcing, evaluating and driving deals end-to-end with a cross-functional team.
    AppDirect
    AppDirect
    Head of Talent & People 2012 - 2016 (about 3 years)
    Attract, train, and retained top talent from employee #1 to 500+ in four years. Worked shoulder to shoulder w/ founding and executive team to build a talent organization that... more spanned four continents and nine countries. Did some M&A work, too.
    Riviera Partners
    Riviera Partners
    Technical Recruiting Lead 2009 - 2012 (almost 3 years)
    Riviera Partners is an executive search and placement firm that assembles management teams for venture-backed technology companies. These were my formative years -- I got... more lucky and am grateful to have worked with many of the Bay Area's top venture-backed technology companies. Internally I lead teams and helped design the onsite recruiting practice, as well as some recruiting softwares.
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