The Recruiting Playbook Behind a $40M Series B

Founder Fridays · 24 Apr 2026

About this episode

Paraform co-founder and CEO John Kim joins Notion's Kyle Atkinson to unpack how expert recruiters and AI agents are teaming up on hiring, why the team dogfoods its own platform for most of its hires, and which part of recruiting AI still cannot replicate, on the way to $65M raised and over a thousand customers.

About the show

Founder Fridays — Notion. Notion's founder series: builders in the trenches on product, design, fundraising and the lessons that never make it onto a slide.