David Head
Founder & CEO — AI talent search and candidate matching
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San Francisco, California
Joined January 2025
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Summary
Founder building talent search and hiring infrastructure. David founded and led marketplaces (Sixty, Laskie, Showspace) and now runs Endorsed, where he focuses on enabling recruiters to discover, surface, and evaluate candidates at scale using AI-driven search, scoring, and matching pipelines. head+2
Product leader specializing in matching, ranking, and candidate intelligence. At Braintrust, Sixty, and Endorsed he designed matchmaking and scoring systems, fraud-detection workflows, and features that improve placement rates, increase match quality, and reduce time-to-hire. notion+3
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Beating Candidate Fraud: Insights from Millions of Applications
August 1, 2025Conference talk sharing patterns from analyzing large applicant datasets: fraud sources, variants, detection techniques, and multi‑layer defenses recruiting teams can use to protect pipelines.
Head.ai — blog (writings & episodes)
Collection of product‑ and recruiting‑centric posts and podcast episodes on building marketplaces, freelancing, and hiring infrastructure.
Hobbies
Building portfolio tools and helping freelancers craft careers (mentoring, creating templates and resources). showspace+1
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play a key role in helping a startup reach an important milestone like a major funding round, acquisition, or IPO.Dec 8, 2025
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make a real technical impact in developer relations for complex AI or machine learning products.Nov 26, 2025
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is one of their favorite recruiters, founders, or tech leads to work with for contract engineering placements.Nov 19, 2025
BOBerk Ozersaid
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has made a significant positive impact as a founder coming out of Y Combinator.Nov 10, 2025
MRMichael Rubinosaid they've seen
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lead an early stage startup through tough, high-uncertainty moments with grit and vision.Oct 15, 2025
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make a real impact with recruitment or talent technology solutions.Jul 30, 2025