About Rora
Our vision is to create a new industry of professionals dedicated to building careers of consequence for researchers, scientists, and engineers.
The New Idea
Who is someone dedicated to building your career long term, outside of yourself?
Someone who advises you to make good decisions on the right industry to work in, the right company to work for, the right projects to work on, or the right compensation to be paid?
The difference in decision making is the difference between choosing to work at MySpace instead of Facebook. Yet, even most successful professionals lack intention, planning, and strategic decision making when it comes to their own careers. Most would say careers are luck but like investing, good decision making in the long run makes you lucky.
Like athletes, actors, or musicians have an agent who proactively builds their clients' careers, we seek to empower the brightest technical minds negotiate win-win deals with their employers.
For companies, we seek to build long term partnerships with leaders to help them hire the best talent and retain them.
From Rora’s Founder, Brian Liou
I grew up in a home of financial privilege, but my father also filled it with physical abuse and emotional pain. The long term impact I only came to terms with 17 years later.
As a child I was incapable of freeing myself from his abuse. I intimately know the fear and difficulty of what should be simple – walk away and tell someone.
I also deeply understand the shame and anger that come from being taken advantage of. It doesn’t leave you – and it shows up later – in personal relationships, in random interactions, and in challenging professional moments.
My father was not consciously trying to hurt me. He was passing down trauma he similarly experienced as a child.
I see this same dynamic play out in offer negotiations and work relationships. Seeking to be understood rather than understand. Win-lose rather than win-win. Needless conflict that can be eliminated.
I see a mindset of scarcity in employees and employers. I see a lack of clarity and ineffective communication.
A founder myself, I know companies don’t intend to hurt the very workers who make them exist. The prioritization of short term profits over people is simply dogma, it doesn’t have to be this way.
Rora is my purpose to change this. I hope you’ll join us on this mission.