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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Max Armbruster is the founder and CEO of Talkpush, the leading messaging recruitment platform. Max is a serial entrepreneur, and has sold his last three companies, most recently a recruitment SaaS company. Max has 17 years of international experience in the US, Europe and Asia, and has held strategic roles at SAP, CNET Networks and AT Kearney.

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launched in 2014, again, talk push, helping people scale their recruitment, make their HR teams more

0:06.4

efficient by using their chatbots to get the first couple conversations going with potential applicants.

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They're now at 35 people, remote team, have 30 customers paying on average 3 grand,

0:15.8

you know, or more per month per month.

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You're doing about 100 grand right now per month in revenue.

0:19.1

That's up from 40 grand per month just 12 months ago. Net negative negative revenue insurance of 5%. Super healthy. They're paying about 11 grand

0:25.0

to acquire a customer worth a six-month payback period. Great economics. This is the top

0:30.7

entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich

0:36.4

or crash and burn.

0:40.2

Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information

0:45.9

that creates business news headlines.

0:49.5

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

0:52.8

I had no money when I started the company. It a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of

0:57.2

me IPOs we're a bit strapped we have like a twenty two thousand customers with over

1:03.8

five million downloads in a very short amount of time major outlets like Inc are calling us the

1:09.3

fastest growing business show on iTunes.

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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

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Hello, everyone. My guest today is Max Armbruster. He's the founder and CEO of a company

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called Talk Push, the leading messaging recruitment platform. He's a serial entrepreneur and has

1:25.6

sold his last three companies, most recently a

1:27.8

recruitment SaaS company. He has 17 years of international experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia,

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and has held strategic roles at SAP, CNET networks, and AT Kearney. Max, are you ready to take us to the

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