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🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Stacy Chapman is the CEO and co-founder of SwoopTalent. Stacy has been in the talent systems industry for decades, as a vendor, practitioner and implementer. In all those situations, talent data has been a huge challenge, and every year data gets more important – so, her current company solves that.
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0:00.0 | World is bigger and tougher, and I am too. There you guys heard it from Stacey. Again, |
0:04.4 | launched her company swooped talent back in 2012, had a really come to Jesus moment in 2016 or come |
0:09.7 | to whoever you worship moment. Okay, that's what we'll call it, Stacy. Come to whoever you worship |
0:12.7 | moment. 2016 refocused, cut her customer base in half down to 27, but more than doubled the price point. She's now got about 27 customers doing about, call it, $112,000 a month in revenue up from |
0:24.1 | 50 grand 12 months ago, so 100% year-over-year growth. |
0:26.6 | Looking to break easily, $2 million in ARR this year. |
0:28.7 | That's 160 grand per month. |
0:30.2 | 115% year-over-year annual revenue retention with their team of 20 based in Oakland, helping |
0:35.5 | these enterprises keep all their talent data streamlined so |
0:38.5 | they can actually use it. |
0:40.6 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies |
0:46.7 | and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
0:52.0 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider |
0:57.1 | information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand |
1:03.1 | dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started the company. It was |
1:06.8 | $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. |
1:13.5 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
1:18.6 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
1:23.5 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
1:27.4 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
1:29.2 | Hello, everybody. My guest today is Stacey Chapman. She's a CEO and co-founder of |
1:33.6 | Swoop Talent. Stacey's been in the talent systems industry for decades as a vendor, |
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