Meet The Disruptors: Jake Loveless Of Edgemesh On The Three Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry

“Hire the least number of best people.” Every company says they hire the best people, but that is tautologically false. Many times, the best people are costly, and they should be! So instead, you want to hire the least number of the best people to get the job done.

As a part of our series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jake Loveless, CEO of Edgemesh.

Jake Loveless is a man who has spent his life trying to figure out how to make things go faster. After a 15-year Wall Street career running high-frequency trading teams, he switched gears to co-found Edgemesh. Edgemesh is a web-acceleration company that helps hundreds of organizations deliver faster websites for more than five billion visitors a month. In this interview, Jake walks us through his professional career, from how he started working in a trucking warehouse to working for the Department of Defense to Wall Street and then founding Edgemesh, and the lessons he’s learned along the way.