Ryan Hogan

Most founders eventually discover that the company they built is only as strong as the people they trusted to build it with them.

Ryan Hogan learned that lesson from both sides of the table. He is a Navy Reservist, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Talent Harbor, a recruiting company built to challenge the traditional commission-driven headhunter model with embedded, flat-fee recruiting for growth-focused businesses. Before Talent Harbor, Ryan helped build Hunt A Killer into a major consumer brand, with public sources noting growth to more than $50 million in revenue, recognition on the Inc. 5000, and Fast Company naming Hunt A Killer one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

But Ryan’s story is not just about scaling companies. It is about what happens when the wrong people are in the wrong seats, when hiring becomes reactive instead of strategic, and when a founder realizes that talent is not an HR issue. It is an enterprise value issue.

Ryan has lived the pressure of building, failing, rebuilding, leading under uncertainty, and turning hard lessons into a new model for helping companies find the people who actually move the business forward. His work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, leadership, recruiting, culture, and execution.

For any founder who has ever said, “Why is hiring still so hard?” Ryan brings the kind of practical wisdom that only comes from the trenches.