Cloë Stanbridge
Talent Lead at Airtree Ventures
Cloë Stanbridge is Talent Lead at Airtree, where she partners with the firm’s portfolio to connect founders with top talent and build scalable hiring processes. Before Airtree she spent over four years at The Lab17 embedding inside scaling companies including Linktree and Immutable, and led talent through a hypergrowth stretch at SafetyCulture, taking the engineering team from around 60 people to 350 in two years.
In their own words
From The Junior Engineer Isn’t Needed Anymore: Cloë Stanbridge, Talent Lead at Airtree · Building Tech TeamsEveryone can build. Not everyone can sell.
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of you want.
- 0:00 Cold open: what should a 10x engineer be paid?
- 0:19 Nathan Hill: quantifying what AI is actually worth
- 1:05 Million-dollar salaries as a bet on future ROI
- 1:28 Adam Witanowski: nine companies, seven offers, real numbers
- 2:35 US$500k in the US vs $220k here: which one would you choose?
- 3:50 Why the gap is structural: funding, hyperscalers, enterprise mindset
- 5:37 Claudia Barriga-Larriviere: more productive, or just faster?
- 6:15 "What you don't measure, you can't change"
- 7:26 Matt McFarlane: the jump is too big, because you've been underpaying
- 8:32 Tokens are eating the people budget
Heard on
▶ Building Tech Teams · 26 August 2026 Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of With Nathan Hill, Adam Witanowski, Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Matt McFarlane
▶ Building Tech Teams · 4 August 2026 The Junior Engineer Isn’t Needed Anymore: Cloë Stanbridge, Talent Lead at Airtree
Airtree Ventures on Day One
Airtree Ventures is a prominent venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia, dedicated to supporting and investing in technology startups across Australia and New… 4 people · 5 episodes → Connections
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