Kelton Hardrict

About Kelton Hardrict

Hi! I\'m KJ, CEO & Co-Founder at Talvy. We\'re making humans hirable again.I watched brilliant people get rejected by algorithms that never saw them, filtered out because their resume didn\'t have the right keywords while candidates with AI-polished bullet points sailed through. The resume, a 500-year-old document, has become an LLM optimization exercise. We\'re replacing it with video-first profiles that show who you actually are.Before Talvy, my career spanned engineering, venture, and content- Principal at Link Ventures, investing in early-stage founders- Founding engineer and senior engineer across multiple startups- Interim CEO when teams needed leadership- 115K+ YouTube subscribers following my work on careers & tech- MIT and Stanford engineering backgroundMIT and Stanford taught me how to think. Startups taught me how to ship. YouTube taught me how to be comfortable and confident in my own skin.And all of these experiences shaped why I started Talvy.I\'ve hired teams, backed founders, and sat on the other side of the table as an applicant. I\'ve seen how much talent gets filtered out by process alone; great candidates who never get a real chance to be heard.Hiring is broken. We\'re fixing it.The best talent deserves to be seen. The best startups deserve to find them.If you\'re rethinking how you evaluate talent, let\'s connect.

Experience

1. Youtube Creator (Kj Hardrict)

   YouTube

   Aug 2017 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Editor, Producer, Director, Writer• Created, maintaining and rapidly growing a motivation, technology and engineering life focused YouTube channel of Subscribers and total video views utilizing professional-grade video and photo editing software (Final Cut Pro X and Adobe\'s Creative Suite)• Write and film three short form videos, and one to two long form videos per week, while answering any tech, entrepreneurial, or college-related questions from viewers• Collaborate with marketing personnel and corporate directors from international brands such as (but not limited to) Google, Samsung, Squarespace, Chegg, HelloFresh, and Skillshare in order to integrate branded content in a creative way on my platforms• Direct a team of video editors and graphics designers in order to increase the pace of content output, and to stay on schedule for course launches and advertising campaigns

Education

• Stanford University School of Engineering

  Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

  2020

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering Major; HASS Concentration in Economics

  2016 — 2020

• Gretchen Whitney High School

  High School, STEM

  2010 — 2016