Proud to see @endorsed_ai featured in @FortuneMagazine today for our work combating candidate fraud. As the article reports, we’ve found that about half of applications to remote IT roles show fraud patterns. This is why we had to redesign identity verification for recruiting. Conventional identity verification tools are not reliable or efficient enough to address this type of fraud. Fraudsters routinely circumvent them with "ID mules" to pass verification, while the process is too burdensome for teams to use across their entire applicant pool. 85% of our customers use an ATS that offers built-in fraud detection. Those who relied on it came to us because it flagged too many legitimate candidates and missed too many fraudsters. Their recruiters lost trust in the results. In both scenarios, recruiters are back to manually reviewing candidates for fraud, while the security risks remain unresolved. What teams needed was accurate, compliant fraud detection at the point of application, with no additional steps for the candidate, all inside their ATS. My cofounder Kevin and I are glad to build this for recruiting and security teams, and help the job applicants who were getting lost in a sea of fraudulent resumes. fortune.com/2026/09/01/north…

dissatisfaction is the seed that spurs your next breakthrough. sit with it.

They say build for the “magic moment” for users. For us that’s detecting the North Korean spy on your payroll with full system access. I don’t think our customers would describe this moment as “magic”, but it definitely aligns everyone on using Endorsed.

Profitability is underrated in tech. If you’re a founder, don’t let anyone psych you into thinking profitability means it’s a “lifestyle business” or an unambitious move. Since Endorsed became profitable: I’m more productive and work longer hours because the work is more fun and fulfilling. We make better decisions from a position of power and abundance. We show up more confidently on sales calls knowing we have a better business. Team morale is higher. We have even more confidence we will achieve our ambitious plans.

We need more bootstrapped / seedstrapped founders sharing their playbooks with the next generation of founders

if this is true everyone on Metamask should move their crypto to another wallet immediately (ideally hardware) North Korean IT workers exfiltrates data immediately and other decisions obviously specialize in crypto theft and laundering

The reason "the best startup ideas sound like the worst ideas" is because a problem has accelerated faster than the public narrative. The only way to know about them is if you are on the frontier with the people experiencing the pain.

If you sell bulletproof clothing, shooting yourself on camera is definitely a good way to go viral and prove that your product works 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=NEDJI9Ph…

Introducing FraudShield Chrome extension — AI candidate fraud detection in your ATS! 🕵️ Start for free in seconds: endorsed.com/extension This year, my cofounder and I saw recruiters spending half their time just checking if candidates were real. So we built FraudShield inside Endorsed. Now FraudShield also comes in a simple Chrome extension that automatically flags fraud at any step in your ATS workflow. No integration or setup is required — it just reads the page. FraudShield uses AI to verify identity — checking resumes, social profiles, phones, emails, external databases, and more to spot fakes before interviews. You can also bulk filter and reject fraud, create compliance records, and view analytics on advanced plans. Privacy is built in: - No candidate data retention on free plans beyond short-lived debug logs - Minimal Chrome permissions - We don’t train AI on your data by default Now more teams can get their time back, revive their inbound pipelines, and keep their companies safe. Try for free in seconds: endorsed.com/extension #ai #hrtech #candidatefraud

Got rejected from a party in SF because I didn’t share my ARR on the Partiful

lol amazing. i agree Zucks testosterone doubled its from jiu jitsu though not TRT measured this on myself going from not working out to 6x a week jiu jitsu nearly doubled my testosterone in 3 weeks everyone thinks he’s doing all of these secret hacks and has a new PR person it’s just jiu jitsu

Working for 79 startups aside, this is a world class cold outreach email that every job seeker should study

if you're not using @WisprFlow ngmi