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Ending Interview Theatre and Finding True Professional Fit
Episode Overview: In the mid-2026 landscape of shifting markets and sweeping tech layoffs, early-stage companies face a unique paradox: an unprecedented surplus of pedigree talent hidden behind broken evaluation systems. In this episode of the Innovators and Investors Podcast, host Adam Chen sits down with Kingshuk Khan, a former Google and IBM engineer and the founder and CEO of Ikigai. Khan breaks down why the traditional resume and interview process has devolved into "theater" and introduces a behavioral AI framework designed to quantify qualitative alignment, reduce devastating startup…
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