Amir Savar — Co-Founder
In college I started a food truck and got my butt kicked by a bad employee. Hiring is hard! Graduated university but could not find a job with my English degree. Nobody was hiring failed food truck founders with excellent reading comprehension. Could not find a job, so I did what anyone else would do and started another business: trying to help people like me unsuccessfully find jobs...that was unsuccessful. Another failed startup but this time time I failed into recruiting. Got a job at a recruiting agency for 7 months. I was doing great! So I left. Left the recruiting agency to work in an environment more aligned with my goals. Had to hire myself. CreativeRecruit boomed! I have helped grow some amazing companies especially in the NYC ecosystem. Most of them exited! Recruiting business is going great so in order to grow AmirEnterprises, a few years ago, along side recruiting, I started a NIH funded condom company. That was disaster. I stand by it. The margins... the margins (he weeps). Came to my senses, and decided to focus 100000% on recruiting, no more "adventures", no more "condom and bagel" distractions, if you know what I mean ;) ;)...(I don't know what I mean). So I started Skilled. Skilled was one of my top-secret recruiting weapons first conceptualized @ Krossover Analytics (exited) in 2015. I love Skilled. We worked with edu's that believed in transformative pedagogy, companies that were rapidly scaling, mentors that were passionate, and job-seekers that were eager. After 6 years of grinding the 2023 banking collapse laid Skilled flat on the mat and forced me to walk away as the full-time CEO. Another failure. This one stung both the most and the least all at the same time. At a certain point you can either take a punch or you can not. It never feels good but it is just part of the game and you are either player or a bystander. As a player this was just another punch (to the gut!) and my response was to counter. Syelo was born. -Amir Savar
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Recruiting and Human Capital expert with extensive startup experience.
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Experience: 14 yrs 5 mos
Career Highlights
- Founded multiple startups with a focus on recruiting.
- Led Skilled to significant growth before market challenges.
- Expert in human capital and team scaling.
Work Experience
DOSS
Human Capital (6 mos)
Superpower
Investor (6 mos)
TensorWave
Human Capital (7 mos)
Kula
Investor (7 mos)
TalentDex
Investor (8 mos)
SkillPool
Investor (1 yr 7 mos)
Syelo Ventures
Founder, General Partner (2 yrs 8 mos)
Equi
Interim Head of Talent (4 mos)
Amperon
Interim Head of Talent (3 mos)
Solid
Interim Head of Talent (3 mos)
mParticle
Director Of Recruiting (1 yr 3 mos)
Recruiting Consultant (Contract) (1 yr 11 mos)
AdHawk
Recruitment Consultant (7 mos)
SPIDR Tech
Advisor (1 yr)
YouNow, Inc.
Recruiting Consultant (11 mos)
ThriveHive
Recruiting Consultant (1 yr 7 mos)
Skilled Inc.
CEO | Founder (5 yrs 11 mos)
Rebelmail
Interim Head of Talent (2 mos)
Draft
Interim Head of Talent (3 yrs 6 mos)
Krossover
Interim Head of Talent (2 yrs 1 mo)
CreativeRecruit
Founder/Principal (6 yrs 1 mo)
Calvin Group
Recruiter (6 mos)
sharQNetwork
Founder (1 yr 5 mos)
Malibu Bagels
Owner (8 mos)
Education
Bachelors at Pepperdine University
at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
