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Vlad Sherbatov: Evan, tell us
about your company Aboard, what

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it does and how you help
organizations improve their

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onboarding process.

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Evan Hallward: At A board, we're
on a mission, really to make

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people operations, less complex
and less time consuming. With

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the goal of making happier
employees, our initial focus

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here is new employee onboarding,
because that's that first

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interaction, that first piece of
the employee experience just

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after getting the job. So if we
can start there, make that

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better ,have onboarding be a
more positive, organized, and

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just enjoyable experience, then
a lot more else can follow.

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Vlad Sherbatov: How did you guys
decide to start this company?

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Vlad Sherbatov: Tell us about
your path to Entrepreneurship.

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Evan Hallward: A board came
about through, you know, the a

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way that many other companies
come about, which is pain

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points. So I personally have had
that pain point of showing up to

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a new job, just there's no
onboarding, it's a complete, I

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feel lost, no one's really there
for me, everything's kind of all

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over the place. So that was the
pin point as from the employee

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perspective, and we had the kind
of mission and goal at one of

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his past roles, to set up
onboarding, and be that

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onboarding manager. And he just
couldn't find a good tool and a

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good kind of resource that he
could turn to, to make that an

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easier process for him, having
never done it before. So between

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those two, we sort of came
together, Lee and I were working

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together. So we came together,
put our heads together, start

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talking to the people and kind
of getting out of the building.

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And when he became came to a
point where we recognize the

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need for a technical partner,
someone who knew how to build

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and scale digital products,
digital teams, engineering

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teams, we were very fortunate to
find Shawn in the midst of

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COVID. And through a number of
zoom dates, manage to create and

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form this partnership that we
now have.

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Did you always want to be
entrepreneur? Is this your first

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time starting a company? Tell us
a little bit about that.

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Evan Hallward: You know, I think
that's something that all three

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of us co founders shares, we've
always had entrepreneurial

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aspirations to want to truly
build something from the ground

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up with entrepreneurship, you
know, it's just this giant

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challenge or the series of
challenges. And so you're always

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kind of overcoming something,
hitting an obstacle, overcoming

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it, learning so much. I feel
like I learn something new every

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hour, I've learned something
here talking with you, Vlad.

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Vlad Sherbatov: When the three
of you guys, do you have to use

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one of you as the deciding
factor, when you don't agree on

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something?

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Evan Hallward: Y Combinators so
you know, a great, great

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accelerator out of San
Francisco. You know, they say

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that thing when the one of the
primary reasons your startup

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will fail is because the co
founders fall apart and the team

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falls apart. When it comes to
the three of us, myself, Lee and

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Shawn, something we're very
focused on is being very

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communicative about our
thoughts, about our feelings,

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when there is a disagreement or
maybe a lack of alignment, we

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don't argue and start, you know,
getting mad at each other. It's

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really just about coming to a
resolution. That number of three

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also really works because then
you always sort of have that

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third person if two people are
disagreeing then you sort of

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have that third person can step
in and I'm not saying it's ever

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the the same person.

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