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Jason Gorham

Founder and CEO of TalentXi and inventor of programmatic job advertising (2003), guest on the Unusual Attitudes podcast.

Oct 12, 2026

5:30
Tell us about how you were able to turn a patent into a, an actual applied technology that was being used at the time, and who you took it to.
5:39
to.Yeah.
5:41
So I owned a company back then called Career Metasearch, and a metasearch is a search of searches.
5:48
Um, along the way, right? So it was myself, Indeed, and Simply Hired, uh, at the time.
5:56
And I built my tech offshore.
5:58
It was in .net, if you remember .net.
6:01
[laughs] Um, I had an offshore team build it, and we started aggregating a lot of websites.

10 MINS LATER

15:46
... what can companies do differently to really set themselves apart in a very competitive job advertising market?
5:30
Tell us about how you were able to turn a patent into an, an actual applied technology that was being used at the time and who you took it to.
5:39
to.Yeah.
5:41
So I owned a company back then called Career Metasearch, and a metasearch is a search of searches.
5:48
Um, along the way, right? So it was myself, Indeed, and Simply Hired, uh, at the time.
5:56
And I built my tech offshore.
5:58
It was in .net, if you remember .net.
6:01
[laughs] Um, I had an offshore team build it, and we started aggregating a lot of websites.

10 MINS LATER

15:46
... what can companies do differently to really set themselves apart in a very competitive job advertising market?

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