In episode 69 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures, chats with Joe Essenfeld, founder and CEO of Fora, an AI platform that turns workplace conversations into real-time business insights. Joe shares his journey from early startup experiences to building Fora, where he combined HR tech expertise with early large language model (LLM) experiments to build a smarter way to run companies. Joe also discusses how Fora uses AI to turn everyday business chatter into actionable insights, accelerating decisions and challenging the role of traditional OKRs.
In this episode, you will hear:
- How Fora leverages AI to solve alignment issues in real time.
- Replacing traditional OKRs with continuous, automated tracking.
- Blending future-of-work and ops intelligence beyond HR tech.
- Linking daily work to company goals without extra process overhead.
- Adapting to shifting product-market fit in a fast-changing landscape.
- Delivering insights via push notifications, no dashboards needed.
Learn more about Joe Essenfeld | Fora
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/essenfeld
Fora: https://fora.day
Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VC
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfielding
Website: https://everywhere.vc/
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