focus on solving a problem, not building a solution. Back in 2016, he pivoted his prior company

into Maya, which is essentially recruiting with a lot of AI behind it to bring about a lot of

efficiencies. He since scaled the company. They've raised about 33 million bucks. And while funding

is an important metric, it's one I tend to prefer and like to look at customers. He's scaling

there as well. 50 customers today.

They've placed tens of thousands of jobs so far, hoping to break hundreds of thousands here in 2018.

On these customers, you know, call it about a hundred bucks per job they place. And these enterprise

customers are buying in chunks of 10,000, 20,000 or more, 100,000 sometimes jobs

place. So healthy business, healthy economics, 14-month payback period currently as they look to start

scaling more rapidly with their team of 40 folks.

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We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.

I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of

any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. With over five million

downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. Hello, everyone. My guest today is

Ayal Gryayevsky. He's the co-founder and CEO of a company called Maya Systems. It was

formerly named First Job. He's the creators of Maya, the industry leading AI recruiter.

So again, applying AI to the recruiting space.

His 12 plus years of managing or co-managing his family's recruiting agency

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