Vlad Sherbatov: Evan, tell us about your company Aboard, what
it does and how you help organizations improve their
onboarding process.
Evan Hallward: At A board, we're on a mission, really to make
people operations, less complex and less time consuming. With
the goal of making happier employees, our initial focus
here is new employee onboarding, because that's that first
interaction, that first piece of the employee experience just
after getting the job. So if we can start there, make that
better ,have onboarding be a more positive, organized, and
just enjoyable experience, then a lot more else can follow.
Vlad Sherbatov: How did you guys decide to start this company?
Vlad Sherbatov: Tell us about your path to Entrepreneurship.
Evan Hallward: A board came about through, you know, the a
way that many other companies come about, which is pain
points. So I personally have had that pain point of showing up to
a new job, just there's no onboarding, it's a complete, I
feel lost, no one's really there for me, everything's kind of all
over the place. So that was the pin point as from the employee
perspective, and we had the kind of mission and goal at one of
his past roles, to set up onboarding, and be that
onboarding manager. And he just couldn't find a good tool and a
good kind of resource that he could turn to, to make that an
easier process for him, having never done it before. So between
those two, we sort of came together, Lee and I were working
together. So we came together, put our heads together, start
talking to the people and kind of getting out of the building.
And when he became came to a point where we recognize the
need for a technical partner, someone who knew how to build
and scale digital products, digital teams, engineering
teams, we were very fortunate to find Shawn in the midst of
COVID. And through a number of zoom dates, manage to create and
form this partnership that we now have.
Did you always want to be entrepreneur? Is this your first
time starting a company? Tell us a little bit about that.
Evan Hallward: You know, I think that's something that all three
of us co founders shares, we've always had entrepreneurial
aspirations to want to truly build something from the ground
up with entrepreneurship, you know, it's just this giant
challenge or the series of challenges. And so you're always
kind of overcoming something, hitting an obstacle, overcoming
it, learning so much. I feel like I learn something new every
hour, I've learned something here talking with you, Vlad.
Vlad Sherbatov: When the three of you guys, do you have to use
one of you as the deciding factor, when you don't agree on
something?
Evan Hallward: Y Combinators so you know, a great, great
accelerator out of San Francisco. You know, they say
that thing when the one of the primary reasons your startup
will fail is because the co founders fall apart and the team
falls apart. When it comes to the three of us, myself, Lee and
Shawn, something we're very focused on is being very
communicative about our thoughts, about our feelings,
when there is a disagreement or maybe a lack of alignment, we
don't argue and start, you know, getting mad at each other. It's
really just about coming to a resolution. That number of three
also really works because then you always sort of have that
third person if two people are disagreeing then you sort of
have that third person can step in and I'm not saying it's ever
the the same person.
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