Join Michael and Robin as they talk with Kevin Corliss, the founder and CEO of Roots, an employee-friendly HR management platform designed to help businesses better monitor and engage their workforces. Kevin's vision for Roots is to help all companies create environments where their employees can flourish. Prior to founding Roots, Kevin was a growth hacker and acquisition marketer at Care.com. He spends much of his time outdoors – traveling, fishing, skiing – and is always looking for new book suggestions, especially if they have to do with startups or post-apocalyptic futures. "Anything where doom seems inevitable," as he likes to put it. We will discuss: Who is Kevin Corliss What is it like to run a startup in the HR Tech space? Talk about how you started Roots (and Treehoppr) Discuss how HR tech is evolving in 2020 with more accidental remote workers than ever before. What if you could run your entire HR org. on Slack, with no bulky software or candidate tracking systems? How can this be accomplished? Roots offers a set of modular and employee-friendly HR solutions for Slack that track time off, manage candidate referrals, and measure employee engagement.  Roots is dedicated to reshaping HR, ridding the workplace of bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy, and positively impacting employee wellness, productivity, and retention. Where can people find you?