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We're a little a lot obsessed
with you winning.

We've done our reps in Big Tech. Between us, we've led teams, sat on calibration, promotion and interview committees, and built the data systems behind billion-dollar decisions, with work that's taken us to 25 countries. Now we're pouring everything we've learned into the tool we wish we'd had back then. It didn't exist, so we're building it for you.

Steph Kumar
Cofounder · Barcelona

Steph Kumar

She's helped people get promoted, again and again.

Steph has led people for almost 15 years, from interns to directors, and has sat in the promotion committees, interview loops and C-level meetings where careers get decided. She knows what leaders look for at each level, and how that changes from one kind of role to the next. Her roots are in user and market research, which is where her other obsession comes from: understanding what people actually want and need, then building the thing that gets them there.

Off the clockWatches every Formula One race, religiously. Three Grands Prix in person so far, Barcelona included.

Nathan Beddome
Cofounder · Austin

Nathan Beddome

He makes messy data make sense, at Google scale.

Nathan spent eight years at Google, where multiple promotions took him to leading research scale and automation. He built pipelines that processed billions of rows of consumer data, ran a classification system that sorted a billion search queries a day for three years, and built the search insight system used by Google's CEO and Chief Business Officer, whose findings shaped a $5B+ search plan. Since then he's built AI-powered analytics products end to end.

Off the clockRoad-trips across the US with his two dogs, and digs into obscure data sets for fun.

Rooms we've been in

We've been part of countless conversations that decided people's careers at public tech companies.

01

Calibration rooms. We've defended our teams and rated other leaders' orgs in the rooms where ratings get set, up to VP level.

02

Promotion committees. We've made the case for countless promotions through senior director, and heard why people do and don't move up.

03

Interview loops. We've hired in marketing, sales, product, engineering, research and design. We know what makes people stand out.

04

C-suite meetings. We've been in the room for company-wide talent decisions, from pay transparency to rewarding high performers.

Why we're building this

Knowing what makes someone ready for the next level shouldn't come down to who you know, or to an expensive one-off session you happened to book. We're building The Take so you can see what makes you stand out, where you can grow, and the fastest way to get where you want to go, without stumbling along the way.

Ready when you are.

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