launched deep hire back in 2017 had some co-founder issues that they've worked out now now they're

focused on getting a 10 grand a month in revenue currently doing a grand per month that's 100 that's

eight customers paying about 150 bucks per month they've raised about 85 grand combination of angel money

and grants to scale it team of two in ohio again building deep hire much easier to use uh software

for recruiters when they're looking to capture video content from people applying and so they can get through it quickly and only invest in those videos where there's true promise in the first minute or two.

Hello, everybody. My guest today is Stephen Gates during college. He went through 24 hackathons, 200 job applications, zero callbacks and made a recruiting hack.

It was basically a VC firm awarded a grant, plus they raised some pre-cede to launch their current

company, deep higher.

They're 1.5 years in.

They had no traction, pivoted to video interviewing platform from pilot feedback.

And now they're closing paying clients, won another grant with Angel Match within two months,

and now focused on getting to the beautiful $10,000 per

month mark as soon as they can. Stephen, are you ready to take us to the top?

I am. Let's do it. All right. So where are you at today on that trek to 10 grand a month?

So right now we're doing about 1,000 in a monthly recurring revenue. That's great. So let's break

down kind of the backstory here. The first thousand can be the hardest sometime.

So when did you actually launch the company?

What year?

So we launched in 2017.

I think officially we incorporated in April 2017.

So it's right after that whole hackathon stuff.

And then since then we actually have three co-founders.

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