The VP-level Hiring Manager Behind Two Tech Exits (To Twitter, Salesforce) Reveals how to Land High-Salary, High-Equity Roles In Tech

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When Twitter acquired TellApart for $533M, I was employee #65. I was also employee #150 (in the US) when Salesforce acquired Datorama for $800M.

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Hey, I'm Evan Hamlin

I'm a Wharton MBA and former Accenture strategist who joined two startups before they became billion-dollar acquisitions, TellApart ($533M to Twitter) and Datorama ($800M to Salesforce), and went on to build and run 70-person go-to-market teams as VP at MURAL, working with Google, Meta, Disney, and NASA.

After a decade conducting hundreds of interviews and deciding who got hired, I kept seeing the same pattern: talented professionals losing to less qualified candidates, leaving six figures on the table at every offer, and picking companies that went nowhere. Not because they weren't good enough, but because nobody had ever shown them what the game looked like from the other side of the table.

I built The Career Capitalist to change that.

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For high-performing professionals breaking into tech who want to compete — and win — at a top-tier level.

Standing out in today’s job market is harder than ever.

Even highly qualified professionals get passed over because they blend into a sea of similar resumes and safe, forgettable answers. What separates top-tier candidates isn’t more bullet points — it’s how they frame their experience, communicate their value, and show up in high-stakes conversations.

When you can tell a sharp, intentional career story and deliver it with real presence, you stop hoping to be chosen and start becoming the obvious choice.

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What others are saying

"...breaking into tech seemed impossible."

"I was coming from traditional finance (AIG), breaking into tech seemed impossible. Evan helped me not only break in, but rock the interviews and land an amazing role at Robinhood! I then worked with him again later and landed my first startup role."

Oliver O'Neal

Sr. Product Operations Manager, Crypto

"...now going after roles with comps around $1M."

"I came to Evan from finance, not tech, and everything he taught me transferred. He helped me strengthen my storytelling, answer for the gaps in my resume, and hold my poise across multiple rounds of interviews. I'm now going after roles with total comp around $1M, with a confidence I didn't have before."

Will Foye

Senior Principal of Capital Solutions

"...I assumed I'd never need help with my resume."

"I have a Wharton MBA and two IPOs behind me. I assumed that meant I'd never need help telling my own story. I was wrong.

None of it was landing the way it should have. Evan helped me turn the resume into one clear story and rewired how I walk into a negotiation. If someone with my resume needed this, I honestly don't know who doesn't."

Salman Hatta

Customer Success & Operations Leader with 2 IPO exits

"...I assumed the title and the equity would sort themselves out. They don't."

"I spent nearly five years as a product manager at Square. I was good at the work. But I struggled with capturing what that work was actually worth. I assumed the title and the equity would sort themselves out. They don't. Nobody hands you your value. You have to name it and ask for it. Evan taught me to run my career like the asset it is. Better comp came within reach, and for the first time, I actually asked for what I wanted."

Edward Wexler-Beron

Product Manager at Square

"Learning that negotiation skill was the highest-paid thing I did all year."

"I'd been at one company for over a decade and had never once run a real comp negotiation. I thought that was something you did only when you had an outside offer in hand. Evan showed me it isn't. My level, my band placement, my refresh grants, my promotion timeline, all of it was on the table at review time, not just at offer time. He helped me turn a decade of scattered work into one clear story, and I made my case internally. Learning that negotiation skill was the highest-paid thing I did all year."

Robert Rinnooy Kan

Senior Manager, Product Management at Amazon