Ignite Startups: How To Use AI for Better Leadership and Feedback with Jared Goralnick | Ep247

What if your biggest career breakthrough… came from a machine that knows you better than your manager ever could?

That’s the bet Jared Goralnick is making—and it’s not coming from theory. It’s coming from a career spent sitting at the fault line between human behavior and software: from early internet hacker, to Microsoft and LinkedIn product leader, to now rebuilding how feedback works from the ground up.

Jared Goralnick is a multi-time founder and former product leader at Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Upwork. Today, he’s the CEO and co-founder of Your360 AI, a voice AI platform reimagining how professionals get feedback, grow, and make career-defining decisions. Instead of static surveys and biased manager reviews, Your360 uses conversational AI to deliver executive-level coaching at a fraction of the cost—unlocking a billion-dollar market that’s long been broken and underpenetrated.

In Today's Episode We Discuss

00:01 – Intro & Guest Welcome

00:23 – Jared’s Early Tech Background

01:27 – Running, Philosophy & Personal Habits

03:11 – Early Influences on Building Products & Teams

06:30 – Obsession with Human Behavior + Software

08:23 – The 4-Hour Workweek & Early Productivity Work

10:19 – Favorite Gadgets & Camping Lifestyle

13:51 – LinkedIn Lessons: Marketplaces & Feedback Loops

17:59 – From Features to Systems Thinking in Product Leadership

21:02 – Founder Lessons & Early Startup Mistakes

25:05 – Origin Story of Your360.ai

27:15 – Market Size & Disrupting 360 Feedback

30:41 – Psychological Safety & AI-Driven Feedback

34:39 – Surprising User Behavior with Voice AI

37:16 – How Your360 Works (Product Walkthrough)

41:14 – Data Privacy, SOC2 & Enterprise Concerns

45:10 – Biggest Mistakes in HR Tech Startups

47:43 – Future of Work & Career Survival Skills

50:08 – Long-Term Vision for Your360

52:08 – Beliefs That Changed Over Time

56:00 – AI Tools, Productivity & Claude/Cursor

🧠 Pull quotes

“Feedback shouldn’t be filtered through someone who controls your compensation. That’s not coaching—that’s politics.”

“If you want to grow, you have to make meaning from feedback—not just receive it.”

Jared grew up watching his father chase the feeling of a great job—and never quite find it again. That imprint stuck. Now he’s building something deceptively simple: a system that helps millions of people actually understand themselves at work—before it’s too late to course-correct.

Because in the end, the biggest risk isn’t failure. It’s going years in the wrong direction… with no one honest enough to tell you.