68: Ruben Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of Career Karma

Since the pandemic, over 100,000 students have skipped filling out financial aid and lower cost local institutions are seeing significant enrollment decline. This is exactly why we need 2.0 institutions that are working towards incentive alignment in education. This week, I dove deep into this topic with Ruben Harris, Founder and CEO of Career Karma. Career Karma simply put is Tripadvisor for your career - it's a managed marketplace focused on connecting high potential individuals with the right skills accelerators to help them harness their potential.

In this conversation we talked about a number of topics: (1) unbundling higher education, (2) why Ruben is bearish on resumes and credentialing, (3) how the job market today mirrors the free agency process in sports, (4) how to unlock organic distribution - CK pumps over 700 pieces of unique content in addition to user generated content every month, (5) his early DMs with Balaji Srinivasan (former CTO, Coinbase) on how to break into tech / ultimately building a product for himself and (6) the recent Harvard Business School Case Study on CK. 

We rounded out the conversation with Ruben's entrepreneurship motto and what drives him to build CK.