Alfie Pearce-Higgins, co-founder and CEO of Rodeo, chats with Jenny Fielding, General Partner of Everywhere Ventures on episode 116: Not My First Rodeo.

In episode 116 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, co-founder and general partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Alfie Pearce-Higgins, co-founder and CEO of Rodeo — an AI-powered careers platform helping people understand the job market, build personalized career plans, and find the right opportunities. Alfie shares how watching startups outperform years of institutional work in developing countries convinced him that the right people, tools, and capital could change everything — a conviction that led him back to the UK to fix one of the most broken markets he'd seen: the job search. He explains how the collapse of the traditional job application market, driven by zero-click application on one side and AI screening tools on the other, created a Akerlof-style market failure that Rodeo is purpose-built to solve.

In this episode, you will hear:

How synthetic applicants and fake job posts are breaking the job application market.
Rodeo's voice-first onboarding approach to building rich, personalized career profiles.
Combining AI efficiency with human advisors for the most powerful careers solution.
How AI is making parental and school career advice dangerously out of date.