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Pete Cipollone

Pete Cipollone

Co‑founder & CEO at Turazo; Olympic gold‑medalist

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San Francisco, California
Joined May 2025
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Summary

Founder‑CEO focused on culture‑forward recruiting: Pete co‑founded Turazo and leads its product and go‑to‑market strategy to surface cultural fit through employee ambassador conversations. The product emphasis is on conversational, scalable candidate experiences to improve hiring and retention. turazo+1
Experienced search / natural language processing technologist with patents: Earlier in his career at Factiva and related Dow Jones/Reuter entities he worked on intelligent query, taxonomy and NLP systems — he is listed as an inventor on multiple patents in information retrieval that underpin his product work. google+2
Elite athlete and team leader: As an Olympic gold‑medalist coxswain for the 2004 U.S. men's eight and multi‑time world champion, Pete brings high‑performance team leadership, coaching, and storytelling skills to his entrepreneurship and recruiting work — a throughline in interviews and public talks. wikipedia+2

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Profile / interview: "Meet the Innovators" — Microsoft for Startups blog

July 28, 2021

Long‑form interview covering career arc from collegiate rowing to elite sport to technology entrepreneurship, product evolution at Turazo, and the role of patents in his work.

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Intelligent search and retrieval system and method (US7836083B2)

November 16, 2010

Patent for an intelligent search and retrieval method that augments simple user queries using taxonomy/code mappings and ranking modules to present more relevant results.

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Intelligent query system and method using phrase-code frequency-inverse phrase-code document frequency module (US20060031218A1 / US7698333)

January 1, 2006

Patent describing an intelligent query/search system that maps phrases to taxonomy codes and scores term‑taxonomy correlations to improve relevance in search/retrieval systems.

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Hobbies

Competitive rowing / coxswain — long history as an elite coxswain, Olympic gold medalist and contributor to the rowing community. wikipedia+2