Why I Built Teal
After WeWork, I wanted to help people navigate their careers the way we helped companies navigate their spaces.
Why I Built Teal
After leaving WeWork, I had a choice: retire early and advise startups, or build something new.
I chose to build.
The Problem I Kept Seeing
At WeWork, I watched thousands of professionals navigate career transitions. Moving cities for a new role. Pivoting industries. Going from corporate to startup or back again.
What struck me wasn’t how good people were at their jobs. It was how bad they were at talking about their jobs.
Brilliant engineers who couldn’t articulate their impact. Marketing leaders who undersold their results by 10x. Product managers with incredible outcomes buried in jargon.
The resume was the bottleneck.
Resumes Are Stuck in 1995
Think about how much has changed in how we work:
- Remote work went from rare to default
- Skills became more important than titles
- Career paths became non-linear
- The average tenure dropped to 2-3 years
But resumes? Still the same Word doc format. Still the same guesswork about what to include. Still the same anxiety about whether you’re “doing it right.”
The Insight
The best recruiters I knew didn’t just read resumes. They translated them. They saw past the bullet points to understand what someone actually did and why it mattered.
What if everyone had access to that translator?
What if AI could help you see your own experience clearly—and communicate it in a way that resonates with the people reading it?
That’s Teal.
What We’re Building
Teal is the AI career platform that helps you:
- Understand your value — Not what you did, but what it meant
- Target the right roles — Match your skills to opportunities
- Tell your story — Resumes, cover letters, interviews that land
We’re not replacing human judgment. We’re amplifying it.
Early Days
We’re still early. Still learning. Still making mistakes and fixing them.
But every time someone tells me they got the job—that Teal helped them see themselves differently—I know we’re onto something.
More to come.
This is the first post on my personal site. I’ll be sharing more thoughts on building, career, and the future of work. Follow along.