Who gets to be a founder, and why do so many women not see themselves in the story… even when they’re already doing the work.

In Part One of Two; Jen and Producer Nico sit down with Sam Garven, co-founder of AI HR platform Hello Canopy, to talk about what happens when someone who never planned to be a founder ends up building technology to fix the broken systems she saw every day in HR.

Sam talks about tripping into founding after years in environmental science, tech recruitment and people leadership; the clunky legacy tools HR teams are still expected to use; and why the best use of AI sits somewhere between full automation and doing everything manually. She also shares why existing privacy laws still apply the moment you hit send on sensitive employee data, even if the AI interface looks like a search box.

You’ll hear Sam talk ...