Ryan, co-founder and COO of Brazen Careerist, sits down with us and shares his incredible story of transitioning from a 9-5 employee to co-founder of one of the hottest start-ups.
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>> My name is Ryan Healy. I'm the cofounder and COO of Brazen Careerist. Brazen Careerist is a career management site for young professionals everywhere. So we're kind of like a career center for the world. So we help people figure out what they want to do with their career, we give them the skills and resources to do it, and then we connect them directly with employers to find their next opportunity. We actually set up events where it will be networking opportunities for you to connect with somebody else who's in your demographic, right? So maybe it's marketing professionals in New York City. We'll have an event for them, you'll go on, you'll be connected to one person after another for an hour who's also another marketing professional, and you'll get to build your network that way. There's never a single day that's exactly the same. Sometimes I'm just running payroll and doing our finances. The boring stuff. Other times I'm out pitching investors to raise money. Other times I'm talking with customers, trying to sell them our services and get them to participate in our virtual career fairs or license our software. And really, it's different every single day. I'm always managing people, it's one thing that's always consistent, but it really kind of goes across the board. So it's, you know, maybe 8:30 to 6:30 we'll be in the office, but typically I'll go home, you know, have dinner and end up kind of working most of the night. Weekends, probably spend half the weekend working as well. So pretty much always working. And I think that's one thing I've learned, that you can't have a 10- or 20-person team with a million dollars of funding or less, right, competing with a 10,000-person company that has billions in the bank unless you're just working like crazy.
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