Value for clients
Value for team members

HOW IT STARTED

In December of 2016, the co-founders of Weave offered to sell me a small department of their company for one dollar. My father, who I love and respect more than anyone, told me it was the dumbest idea he’d ever heard.

He wasn’t entirely wrong to be skeptical.

For years we grew it the old-fashioned way: hiring locally, training hard, trying to hold a team together in an industry where turnover never stops. Then Covid hit and everything broke at once. We were hiring 15 to 25 people a month just to maintain the same headcount. Something had to change.

Someone suggested hiring from Latin America. I was the loudest voice against it. I’d had too many frustrating experiences with outsourced call centers, thick accents, scripts, people who couldn’t actually help. I’d written off the whole idea.

We hired two people anyway. Begrudgingly.

Those two hires changed it all.

The problem was never international talent. The problem was how most companies approached it, as a cost play, not a quality play.

That realization became Teem.

There are brilliant professionals across Latin America and the Philippines who deserve careers worthy of their skills. There are healthcare practices across the US that need people who show up like they own the outcome. Our job is to connect both, carefully, and for the long term.

— Cory Pinegar, Founder