1249 Hireology Passes $20m in ARR, Helping 5000+ Businesses Hire Better
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Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Adam Robinson is Co-Founder and CEO of Hireology, a venture-backed hiring and talent management platform named a Top 50 Best Workplace by Inc., a Top Company Culture by Entrepreneur, and #94 in 2016 and #332 in 2017 on the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. He’s the author of The Best Team Wins: Build your Business Through Predictive Hiring, the host of The Best Team Wins Podcast, and a weekly columnist for Inc. He was named a top 25 Industry Game Changer by Workforce and in 2017 was a finalist for E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year. Adam has a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received his MBA from DePaul University. He's a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, and lives in Chicago's Rogers Park community with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Take bigger risks earlier in your life. If you're listening right now, you're under 30. Go for it. Stop sitting around. Adam launched Tyrology back in 2010. He's now helping over 5,000 locations across 130 different brands. Really, again, hire more effectively, onboard more effectively and just bring a lot of waste and pull a lot of waste out of the hiring and recruiting process. They're growing rapidly, 2016, 9 million, 2017 scale to 17. Today, they're |
| 0:22.7 | at about 1.7 million bucks a month in revenue, hoping to go up to 27 million in terms of run rate |
| 0:27.5 | by the end of 2018. Currently 90% net revenue retention annually. They're spending, you know, |
| 0:32.6 | three to five grand to acquire these customers targeting 11 to 12 month payback period. |
| 0:36.9 | 170 people between Chicago and other remote locations around the U.S. |
| 0:40.5 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got |
| 0:47.1 | filthy rich or crash and burn. |
| 0:51.9 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider |
| 0:57.0 | information that creates business news headlines. |
| 1:01.0 | We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. |
| 1:04.0 | I had no money when I started the company. |
| 1:06.0 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
| 1:10.0 | We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. |
| 1:14.7 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling |
| 1:20.6 | us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
| 1:28.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:29.0 | My guest today is Adam Robinson. |
| 1:31.1 | He's the co-founder and CEO of Hierology, a venture-backed hiring and talent management |
| 1:35.2 | platform named a top 50 best workplace by Inc. |
| 1:38.9 | A top company culture by entrepreneur and number 94 in 2016 and number 332 and 27 on the Inc 500 list of America's |
| 1:45.8 | fastest growing private companies. Adam, are you ready to take us to the top? |
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