Ricardo Cardoso

I find the people who build companies. Founder + · AI-native exec search · ex-Uber, ex-Nubank

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

How to fix your entire career in 1 day:

Stop optimizing for salary, title, and comfort.

I’ve taken 4 pay cuts in my career. Each one made me richer.

After 13+ years watching thousands of careers play out, here’s the decision framework I wish I had. https://t.co/TDFXlkba14

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@MediaKing headhunters everywhere reading this: thanks bro, really appreciate the 5 searches instead of 1 😂

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@sama this is so insane lol. a group of AI agents just casually taking a swing at one of the hardest problems in mathematics. what a time to be alive

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@Fisties1789 @hilbertspaess would you recommend Anthropic as a place to work? might be the real stress test here

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

Recruiter: why did you leave your last company?
Jacob: how much time do you have?

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

Turns out the AI jobs apocalypse requires a lot of hiring.

Can confirm. We’re busy 😂

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@DavidSacks as a headhunter, can confirm: we are fucking busy

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@EverettRandle calling it 1% of the journey is the right humility. the talent bet is who stays sharp when the company is already a billboard

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@Pedrodv rewriting the stack for velocity is a talent decision too. half the teams i see keep the wrong framework because the people who chose it still own the roadmap

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@stefanmatar @magicailabs tiny colocated teams with shared context still beat big orgs with better tools. agents help. density of people who care is the real moat

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@GergelyOrosz @finkd founders shipping again is the quiet hiring signal. when the ceo can move product, the bar for every other seat goes up overnight

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@EricSteinb glad to see you guy's crushing it!

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

every company wants an ai agent strategy. few have a talent strategy for the humans who own those agents when they break

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@ericosiu recruiters need this energy. 40 open threads, zero scorecard, and somehow the urgent one is always the softest ask. prioritization is the real hiring skill, not the ats.

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@eriktorenberg being on no path is sometimes much closer to the right path than confidently walking down the wrong one.

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@lennysan @illscience the underclass story sells. the hiring market disagrees. every serious team i talk to is still hunting for people who can ship with these tools, not people to replace

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@ValerPinderi @lennysan @illscience @a16z exactly. shortage of engineers is the loud story. the real bottleneck is seeing judgment before someone is on payroll

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

linkedin wants ai to do the searching so recruiters can do the deciding. fine. most teams still havent written down what good means in one sentence. the agent will just search faster for the wrong profile.

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@GergelyOrosz chief of ai agents are easy to spin up. the scarce part is still a human who knows which decisions the agent should never own.

[Ricardo Cardoso @TalentFounder]

@richzou this is packed with great insights ☝️