THE ENTREPRENEUR
Alumni Profile
JARED FULLER
I was involved with SFL almost
at its inception – at least before
there was any organization in
the South. I organized, recruited,
and ran the first Southern SFL
conference, acted as a member
of the Executive Board, and
helped start dozens of student
organizations in the South.
While SFL’s Southern Director, I won the award for the event
of the year when my YAL chapter hosted Ron Paul at Wake
Forest to an audience of 1,300 people at a school of 4,000,
after the 2008 election hype. Today, I’m the Co-Founder &
CEO of JobHive. We change lives daily by empowering job
seekers with guaranteed responses to over 1,000,000 jobs
online. We’re also the first hiring platform to push video
applications into the applicaton process. We have a rapidly
expanding team of over 20 employees and are hiring for over
4 positions. By the end of 2015 we anticipate having over 50
employees. Mutual and free value exchange is one of the core
tenants of liberty and that concept comes to life when you
have a job and a team working with you. We’re consolidating
a fragmented industry and empowering job seekers and
employers with tools they’ve never had with bleeding-edge
technology. This is, to me, the manifestation of the libertarian
ideology. That is, providing value, solving problems, and
contributing to a better tomorrow. When I was a student
volunteer for SFL, I was a part of the team that put together
the first Campus Coordinator program. Post college, that
organizational knowledge has helped me hire literally dozens
of employees in my entrepreneurial endeavors. I also learned
priceless knowledge about pitching ideas and marketing.
Libertarianism is complicated and often very dry. I learned
through SFL how to make appealing to liberty emotional and
beautiful and I even won a $40k prize for producing a video
that demonstrated the morality of free enterprise with an
emotional pitch! But, more than anything, SFL showed me
that I could be a leader and empowered me in ways my precollege self would have thought impossible.
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