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How I made it: Ian Siegel employs artificial intelligence to disrupt the job recruitment industry

LOS ANGELES - Ian Siegel, 45, is chief executive of Santa Monica-based ZipRecruiter, the company he co-founded in 2010 to disrupt the recruitment and hiring industry. Since then, more than 1.5 million businesses and more than 430 million job seekers have used the online employment marketplace, according to the company. ZipRecruiter has nearly 1,000 employees, a quarter of whom are engineers.

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Studying sociology, psychology and English at Oberlin College wasn't the waste of time that Siegel feared it might be once he started a

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