For Chris Vasquez, the founder of The Quantum Talent Group, the first step in his journey to becoming an entrepreneur was breaking the preconceptions about success that his family had implanted in him since childhood.
Vasquez admits that growing up, the idea of opening his own enterprise was not even on his radar.
“That beauty of [my story],” explained Vasquez during a recent interview. “I was raised as a straight-A student; I went to college; I was groomed to be an amazing employee, work my nine-to-five, have benefits, and play it safe.”
Nowadays, Vasquez is the owner of one of the most distinguished executive search companies in the SaaS and Crypto sectors nationwide. The Quantum Talent Group is an expert in assembling and scaling full executive, engineering, and product teams for VC-backed SaaS and Crypto startups, helping them grow into multi-billion-dollar companies. This California-based firm has partnered with many leading emerging software-technology startups, including ClickUp, Kandji, Gemini, and Dapper Labs.
During most of his early life and young adulthood, Vasquez’s notion of success was having a stable job, making enough money to pay the bills, and saving to have a peaceful retirement. Becoming the chief executive of a multi-eight-figure company and rising to the peak of the executive search industry required Vasquez to rewire his brain to follow a more meaningful life vision.
In a video interview back in January, Vasquez explained the hollow inherited beliefs about work and success he had to debunk before pursuing a career as an entrepreneur.
What differentiates an entrepreneur from the rest of the masses is a question that lies at the core of Vasquez’s entrepreneurial career. Unlike other successful business owners, Vasquez did not grow up in an environment filled with entrepreneurs. His family encouraged him to seek the life of a waged worker. His dream job as a child was becoming a writer, and he eventually went to college for English to pursue a career in writing.
“l love writing; I love communicating, and I love impacting people with my words,” said Vasquez. “Books have been such a big part of my life, and I still want to write books.”
Vasquez was nurtured to become a diligent member of the waged-labor class. Before finally taking the leap of opening his own company, he had to challenge the good-worker archetype deep-rooted in his psyche.
“Make sure you have benefits; make sure you have a good nine-to-five; make sure you have your 401K. I was brainwashed to believe all that,” said Vasquez. “I had to unlearn all of those things and have the courage to break free from that mold and my family’s expectations to follow a much bigger vision.”
Upon graduating college, Vasquez worked for three different major recruiting firms before founding The Quantum Talent Group. His time in corporate recruitment helped him understand that he did not desire to spend his entire career representing companies whose values he did not share. Vasquez’s corporate job did not provide him with a sense of fulfillment, and he wanted to pursue his own vision and build an organization that could create more impact in the world.
Thus, two years ago, Vasquez took the leap of resigning from his last corporate job and opening his own company.
In the early days as a business owner, although Vasquez lacked entrepreneurial experience, he realized that he could use the skills he acquired in college towards a more meaningful purpose. His background in writing was critical to the rapid growth of The Quantum Talent Group.
“Writing was probably the biggest asset I had when building my company,” said Vasquez. “I built my company off copywriting campaigns from LinkedIn. I used copywriting campaigns and email campaigns to get in front of executives at multi-billion-dollar companies.”
Over the past two years, The Quantum Talent Group has grown into one of the most prominent recruiting brands for SaaS and Crypto startups in the executive search industry. With the help of a devoted team and an unbreakable commitment to serve his clients, Vasquez was able to take his company from zero to more than eight figures in annual revenue in such a relatively short period.
Today, Vasquez and his team continue to work to make The Quantum Talent Group the pre-eminent executive search company in the SaaS and Crypto sectors.
By Juan Sebastian Restrepo,
With Artistic Initiative Agency
