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Daniel Chait

Co-founder & CEO, Greenhouse Software · 1 appearance on the record.

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Daniel Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Greenhouse Software, an applicant tracking and hiring platform launched in 2012. He previously co-founded the consultancy Lab49 and co-authored the book Talent Makers.

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5 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Daniel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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294 words/min while actually speaking · 29.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Daniel Chait: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 5,099 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Daniel Chait said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Chait: Diversity hiring issues stem from downstream processes, not candidate pipelines
“One of the insights that we had from the research was that most people sort of offhandedly perceive diversity is a top of funnel problem. They say, oh, there's not enough women engineers out there. Well, it turns out that's not necessarily always the case. Oft…”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 16:24 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Insight
Recruiting lacks classic big data scale because hiring happens individually
“When you talk about data, like people are always talking about big data in hiring and recruiting, you often don't have like classically think of as big data. You often do things one at a time.”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 4:15 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Disclosure
Greenhouse limited its diversity product scope to target unconscious bias
“The third is that we consciously chose, no pun intended to limit the scope of the product around solving issues of unconscious bias.”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 12:21 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Insight
Chait: Providing corporate diversity data without context creates business risk
“And we thought if we just gave them data without the context behind the data, that that would open them up and by extension ourselves up to potential problems.”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 14:35 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Insight
Chait: Hiring is a six-figure bet made with shockingly little data
“Every time you make a hire, you're basically placing a six figure annual bet on that person. And I can't think of another place in any organization where you make as big of a decision with as much financial impact with as little information as when most compan…”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 17:50 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Disclosure
Greenhouse enforces structured hiring by requiring identical questions for all candidates
“Like we take a position on structured hiring that you should have a hiring process. You should ask every candidate for a job, you know, the same questions in the same order. And give the ability to compare apples to apples.”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 18:56 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Insight
Chait: Heads of D&I are generally not software buyers
“They may have a head of D and I but that person is generally not in the business of buying software.”
Daniel Chait Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 23:55 A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Appearances (1)

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A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Dr Jun 8, 2018 21m
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