Builders & Doers HBS, BCG, HireFrame: The Real Story Behind the Resume - Mike Wu | 52
Mike Wu’s résumé looks like the classic prestige path: USC, investment banking, Sony, Harvard Business School, BCG, and then entrepreneurship. But in this conversation, he explains why that neat story looked much cleaner on LinkedIn than it felt in real life.
We talk about career searching versus status chasing, what his failed search fund taught him about risk and timing, how HireFrame emerged from a real hiring problem, why offshore staffing succeeds or fails on context, how founders should think about delegation, and what AI is changing in global work.
This is a sharp episode for founders, operators, hiring leaders, and anyone trying to build something real behind the optics.
00:00 LinkedIn vs reality
01:00 Meet Mike Wu
02:00 USC, parental pressure, and choosing business
05:30 What elite résumés can hide
07:41 Search funds explained
11:10 When the search fund failed
14:35 How HireFrame started
17:21 The real gap in offshore staffing
21:11 Athena, AI, and executive assistants
23:41 Training global SDR talent
26:41 Delegation with Loom + LLMs
30:08 Trust and remote hires
31:42 Scaling HireFrame in the AI era
33:44 What founders have to unlearn
35:47 Risky bets that changed the company
37:33 The hardest thing in business
38:29 The future of global work in 2030
40:41 Where to find Mike
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