{"id":47026,"date":"2026-04-16T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondahx.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/seekouts-anoop-gupta-steps-down-as-ceo-hands-reins-of-ai-recruiting-company-to-tech-vet-sean-thompson-geekwire\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:48:30","slug":"seekouts-anoop-gupta-steps-down-as-ceo-hands-reins-of-ai-recruiting-company-to-tech-vet-sean-thompson-geekwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bondahx.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/seekouts-anoop-gupta-steps-down-as-ceo-hands-reins-of-ai-recruiting-company-to-tech-vet-sean-thompson-geekwire\/","title":{"rendered":"SeekOut&#8217;s Anoop Gupta steps down as CEO, hands reins of AI recruiting company to tech vet Sean Thompson \u2013 GeekWire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5079-1-1260x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5079-1-1260x709.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5079-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5079-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5079-1.jpg 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\"\/><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">SeekOut co-founders Aravind Bala (left) and Anoop Gupta, who is stepping down as CEO to become executive chairman. Bala will continue as CTO, working with new CEO Sean Thompson. (SeekOut Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/guptaanoop\">Anoop Gupta<\/a> is stepping down as CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seekout.com\">SeekOut<\/a>, the Bellevue-based recruiting startup he co-founded in 2017, handing the reins to enterprise software veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/seanthompson3\">Sean Thompson<\/a> and turning his attention to growing heirloom tomatoes, among other pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta, 67, whose long Microsoft career included stints as Bill Gates\u2019 technical assistant and head of Skype and Exchange, plans to step down from his full-time role May 4 and become executive chairman. The decision has been a few years in the making, he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a geek and an entrepreneur, but to me, the most important things are the people and the connections and the storytelling and, you know, vegetables,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1764698855461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924303\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1764698855461.jpg 783w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1764698855461-768x760.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1764698855461-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\"\/><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">Enterprise technology veteran Sean Thompson will become SeekOut\u2019s new CEO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the new CEO, Thompson said he plans to focus on scaling SeekOut Spot \u2014 the agentic AI recruiting service launched a year ago \u2014 while pursuing acquisitions of recruiting agencies to help fuel long-term growth.<\/p>\n<p>A Seattle-area business and technology veteran, Thompson most recently led NAVEX, a private-equity backed governance and compliance software company, as president and CEO from 2022 until early 2025. He previously held senior roles at SAP and Microsoft, and co-founded the AI startup Nuiku, which sold to Nortek in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson lives in Bellevue, about two miles from SeekOut\u2019s office, and spent the past year in semi-retirement, riding horses on his Montana property and taking on board advisory roles.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s getting back in the startup saddle. In an interview, Thompson said SeekOut\u2019s opportunity to take advantage of progress in agentic AI was too compelling to sit out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a large market out there, and we can fundamentally change the way candidates experience the search process, and the way hiring managers approach the search process,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cBeing able to make an impact is really what inspired me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260416289383\/en\/SeekOut-Names-Sean-Thompson-as-CEO-to-Lead-the-Agentic-AI-Recruiting-Revolution\">Announcing the news<\/a> Thursday morning, the company said SeekOut co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aravindbala\/\">Aravind Bala<\/a>, who has led product and engineering since the company\u2019s founding, will continue as chief technology officer and work closely with Thompson on the next phase of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta and Bala worked together at Microsoft on Office Mix, an online presentation service, before leaving to launch a company together. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/ex-microsoft-exec-anoop-guptas-new-startup-is-rethinking-messaging-by-empowering-recipients\/\">GeekWire reported at the time<\/a>, they initially pursued a messaging service based on the idea that recipients \u2014 not senders or platforms \u2014 should be compensated for their attention. That idea didn\u2019t take off, but a tool that they built to find potential customers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/linkedin-isnt-enough-ex-microsoft-leaders-raise-6m-recruiting-startup-seekout\/\">became the foundation of SeekOut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SeekOut has raised a total of $189 million from investors including Tiger Global, Madrona Venture Group, and Mayfield, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2022\/latest-unicorn-sighting-in-seattle-seekout-lands-115m-to-expand-recruiting-software\/\">hitting a $1.2 billion valuation<\/a> with its Series C in early 2022. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2021\/seattle-startup-seekout-raises-65m-take-linkedin-recruiting-giants\/\">grew rapidly<\/a> and expanded headcount, but cut staff twice \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2023\/seekout-lays-off-7-of-staff-in-restructuring-but-plans-to-grow-headcount-this-year\/\">in October 2023<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2024\/recruiting-software-company-seekout-lays-off-employees-in-another-round-of-cuts\/\">May 2024<\/a> \u2014 as the economy turned and the recruiting market contracted.<\/p>\n<p>Today it has roughly 150 employees, more than 750 corporate customers, and over $100 million in the bank, according to Gupta. That gives SeekOut the runway to deepen its AI initiatives and time to pursue the acquisitions Thompson described as central to his plans.<\/p>\n<p>SeekOut ran a formal executive search for more than six months, but Thompson didn\u2019t come through that process. He was initially brought in as an advisor on SeekOut\u2019s acquisition strategy, through connections including SeekOut general counsel Sam Shaddox \u2014 his outside counsel during the sale of Nuiku \u2014 and the Seattle M&amp;A advisory firm Alexander Hutton, where his brother James Thompson works. <\/p>\n<p>Through that advisory work, Thompson connected with Bala, and the CEO conversation evolved from there. \u201cIt clicked, and moved just very fast,\u201d Gupta said.<\/p>\n<p>SeekOut operates in two areas: Recruit, an AI-powered platform that recruiters can use to search more than a billion candidate profiles; and Spot, the service that pairs AI agents with SeekOut\u2019s own recruiters to deliver interview-ready candidates to hiring managers in about two weeks. Under Thompson, Spot is expected to be the major focus.<\/p>\n<p>As executive chairman, Gupta estimates he\u2019ll spend 20% to 25% of his time on the role. More broadly, he said, he worries about the societal impact of AI, and wants to make more time for the things technology can\u2019t accelerate, such as family, relationships, and community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomatoes don\u2019t grow any faster,\u201d he said. \u201cThey still take a season to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2026\/seekouts-anoop-gupta-steps-down-as-ceo-hands-reins-of-ai-recruiting-company-to-tech-vet-sean-thompson\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SeekOut co-founders Aravind Bala (left) and Anoop Gupta, who is stepping down as CEO to become executive chairman. 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